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When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study toy versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.
Doron Zeilberger
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Doron Zeilberger
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 2
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