I recently read a Wall Street Journal article, “The Power of Unsolvable Problems,” describing a course for freshman engineering majors at Northwestern University. By unsolvable, they really mean problems that may have multiple solutions or may not be solvable within given constraints, and not something the traditional freshman student has experienced. Everyone, however, is going to experience an “unsolvable problem” at some point in their professional and personal lives.
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