Word Problem

The term word problem has several meanings:

  • word problem (mathematics education) is a type of textbook problem designed to help students apply abstract mathematical concepts to "real-world" situations
  • word problem (mathematics) is a decision problem for algebraic identities in mathematics and computer science
  • word problem for groups is the problem of recognizing the identity element in a finitely presented group
  • word problem (computability) is a decision problem concerning formal languages

Famous quotes containing the words word and/or problem:

    “When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
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