Rob De La Espriella is the creator of BlueDragon, a problem-solving system used by the US national laboratories and nuclear facilities. United States businesses are silently hemorrhaging trillions of ...

As a physics major, it feels like I spend the majority of my waking life solving problems. I’ve calculated the amount of water you get from mixing different ratios of steam and ice, the path of ...

It might seem counterintuitive, but even at a place like Princeton, what you know isn’t the sole determinant of success. For exam-level problems in STEM and other quantitative courses at a high level, ...

Integer linear programming can help find the answer to a variety of real-world problems. Now researchers have found a much faster way to do it. The traveling salesperson problem is one of the oldest ...

Critical thinking is a fundamental cognitive process that enables individuals to objectively analyze, evaluate and interpret information to make informed decisions and solve complex problems. It ...

Five steps to ensure that you don’t jump to solutions by Julia Binder and Michael D. Watkins When business leaders confront complex problems, there’s a powerful impulse to dive right into “solving” ...

In entrepreneurship, not all problems are created equal. I’ve found that there are three layers of problems, and each one requires its own type of solution — here’s what they are and how to approach ...

One of the greatest struggles in therapy is reconciling the motivation to avoid with the need to approach something difficult. It is understandable that when someone is afraid of something, they want ...

A pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently discovered hints that the process of compressing information can solve complex reasoning tasks without pre-training on a large number of ...