Sentence examples for set himself the problem from inspiring English sources
In his first paper (1866), Boltzmann set himself the problem of deriving the full second law from mechanics.
Hamming set himself the task of solving this problem, which he realised would have an enormous range of applications.
Sensing public disquiet over the failure to tackle the perception of a growing underclass, prime minister David Cameron set himself the target last year of tackling all "problem families" in "broken Britain" by 2015 and set aside £400m to fund schemes.
The director has set himself a complicated problem: shooting an action movie in narrow compartments.
Raisman understood that he had set himself a difficult problem.
"This boy would set himself maths problems, which he had to solve before he could eat.
The problem he set himself was how to combine that mission, his furious devotion to human progress, with a cool certainty that the end of all progress would be entropy, devolution, nullity.
"They set the problem and then solve it," he said.
And you set the problem yourself and you're trying to always get better at it.
