Sentence examples for resisted solution from inspiring English sources

After the dramatic successes of Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia and Lodovico Ferrari in the 16th century, the theory of equations developed slowly, as problems resisted solution by known techniques.

In 2000, the P = NP problem was designated by the Clay Mathematics Institute as one of seven Millennium Problems — "important classic questions that have resisted solution for many years" — only one of which has been solved since.

The first person to submit a correct proof of Goldbach's conjecture -- a well-known mathematical poser that has resisted solution for more than 250 years -- before March 15 , 2002 will receive a check for $1 million.

Roderic D. M. Page, a professor of taxonomy at the University of Glasgow, called the Open Tree of Life team "first class," but added: "Displaying large trees is a hard problem that has so far resisted solution.

It has resisted solution until recently when new ideas drawn from orbifold constructions and topological field theories have been brought to bear on the question.

Mathematicians became interested in mirror symmetry around 1990 when physicists Philip Candelas, Xenia de la Ossa, Paul Green, and Linda Parks showed that mirror symmetry could be used to solve problems in enumerative geometry that had resisted solution for decades or more.

Tuerlinckx continues to tease because her works resist solution.

As with two of his idols, Borges and Kafka, many of the mysteries in Bolaño's work resist solution.

Yet many problems resist solution because the offending (unsustainable) practices are linked to deeply entrenched practices and constraints and supported by established definitions of values and interests.

Ni is advantageous as a fairly good conductor of heat whose surface can resist solutions.

Pakistan, for its part, has resisted any solution that would include only the Northern Alliance.