Sentence examples for famous problem from inspiring English sources

This was a famous problem.

"It's a famous problem in Earth rotation studies," Dr. Gross said.

"It's the classic prisoner's dilemma," said Mr. Burke, referring the famous problem in game theory.

He sent the pamphlet to Gauss, who dismissed it, failing to recognize that the famous problem had indeed been settled.

Without the benefit of any formal training, Ramanujan claims to have come close to a solution to the famous problem.

It concerned another famous problem, the Landau-Siegel zeros conjecture, and he left it up because he hopes to correct it.

There are two famous problems with this view of God.

This statement, now known as Gelfond's theorem, solved the seventh of 23 famous problems that had been posed by the German mathematician David Hilbert in 1900.

Perelman, by casually posting a proof on the Internet of one of the most famous problems in mathematics, was not just flouting academic convention but taking a considerable risk.

And despite all the famous problems on and off the set during the making of "Apocalypse Now," some of her happiest memories were when she was 6 and her father was directing that film in the Philippines.

For example, in one of the American composer Sam Loyd's most famous problems (see the composition), the surprise is that White's b-pawn, which appears to be an innocuous bystander on the second rank, advances five times and delivers mate.