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Have you ever seen a Russian Matryoshka doll? When you open up this wooden figure then you will find a smaller figure inside which looks just like the first one. You can open this figure again and find a yet smaller one, and so on. Some mathematical problems can be tackled in a similar way: solve the problem by reducing it to a smaller problem of the same kind. This technique is called recursion.
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Grieser, D. (2018). Recursion – a fundamental idea. In: Exploring Mathematics. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90321-7_2
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