Literary notes about problems (AI summary)
The term “problems” is used with remarkable flexibility in literature, referring both to concrete challenges and abstract quandaries. In some works, it denotes clearly defined puzzles or technical glitches—whether in the realm of mathematics and logic ([1], [2], [3]) or modern technology and communications ([4], [5], [6]). In other writings, “problems” embodies the deep, often existential dilemmas of life and society, as seen in philosophical and sociological discussions ([7], [8], [9], [10]). Authors also apply the term to everyday personal and familial issues, highlighting the intimate and sometimes unresolved struggles characters face ([11], [12], [13]). Thus, “problems” serves both as a metaphor for larger theoretical debates and as a description of practical obstacles that drive narrative conflict across a broad spectrum of literary works ([14], [15], [16]).
- THE AUTHORS' CLUB March 25, 1917 CONTENTS PREFACE v ARITHMETICAL AND ALGEBRAICAL PROBLEMS.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney - I have, therefore, thought it well to keep these dissection puzzles distinct from the geometrical problems on more general lines.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney - 109 CROSSING RIVER PROBLEMS 112 PROBLEMS CONCERNING GAMES.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney - The most probable cause of your problems is your computer's communications port.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - You can avoid noise problems by using get commands (see Chapter 15), and by making the online service use its minimum prompts ('expert mode') .
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - Transfer problems ————————- Most transfer problems are caused by the communication programs and their (lack of) features.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - What escape have I had from problems that could be demonstrated, and realities that could be grasped?’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens - I myself have come, by long brooding over it, to consider it the most central of all philosophic problems, central because so pregnant.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - Thus the problems connected with knowledge of truths are more difficult than those connected with knowledge of things.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - All the problems of social life are thus problems of the individual; and all problems of the individual are at the same time problems of the group.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - They had never exchanged two words upon the more intimate problems of life, or revealed in each other's presence the existence of any deep feeling.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. by John Galsworthy - “He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - I could just blame it all on problems with Ange and she'd leave my room and leave me alone.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - It revolutionized not only our conceptions of natural history, but also our methods of thinking on all the problems of human society.
— from English Literature by William J. Long - It was one of these insoluble problems that rose up unceasingly before my mind!
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne - The problems of the true neuroses, whose symptoms probably originate in direct toxic damage, yield no point of attack to psychoanalysis.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
