[G.Polya]
Separate the various parts of the condition. Our first
duty is to understand the problem. Having understood the problem
as a whole, we go into detail. We consider its principal parts,
the unknown, the data, the condition
each by itself. When we have these parts all in mind
but no particularly helpful idea has yet occurred to us
we go into further detail. We consider the various data each
data go into further detail. We consider the various data,
each datum by itself. Having understood the condition
was a whole, we separate its various parts,then we consider
each part by itself.
We see nowe the role of the suggestion that we have o
idsucss here. It tends to provoke a step that we have to
take when we are trying to see the problem distinctly
and have to go into finer and finer detail. It is a step in
DECOMPOSING AND RECOMBINGIN
Separate the various parts of the condition. Can you
write them down? We often have opoprtunity to ask this
question when we are
SETTING UP EQUATIONS