The phrase "a basic problem in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a fundamental issue or challenge within a specific field or context.
Example: "One of the basic problems in urban planning is the lack of affordable housing."
Alternatives: "a fundamental issue in" or "a core challenge in".
One-class classification is a basic problem in machine learning.
- Singularity of symbolic matrices: a basic problem in both computational complexity.
The story: in their own words This week's puzzle originally emerged from studying a basic problem in origami.
The report highlights a basic problem in investing — that the obsession with recent returns hurts long-term performance.
Thermal flows at low Mach numbers are a basic problem in combustion, environmental pollution prediction and atmospheric physics areas.
The design of the energy management is a basic problem in the preliminary design of complex buildings.
A basic problem documented in many polls is that although the majority Bosniak Muslims, a few numerically small ethnic groups, and a large number of people who refuse to self-label ethnically or religiously all desire a multi-ethnic country, most Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats do not.
The transformation between Cartesian coordinates and geodetic coordinates is a basic problem frequently encountered in geodesy and astronomy, e.g., in GPS positioning.
A basic problem, particularly acute in rugged areas like the Blosseville Coast (see ">this 3-D map) and the Geicke plateau around it, is figuring out where debris-covered ice ends and plain old debris begins.
First Book (firstbook.org) addresses a basic problem facing poor kids in America: They don't have books.
Recovering a function f from its integrals over hyperplanes (or line integrals in the two-dimensional case), that is, recovering f from the Radon transform Rf of f, is a basic problem with important applications in medical imaging such as computerized tomography (CT).
