The story
After their inventor, the Russian computer scientist Mikhail Moiseevich Bongard (Михаил Моисеевич Бонгард, 1924—1971).
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Bongard problem
Today it means: A kind of puzzle in which there is one common factor in a first set of diagrams that is missing from a second set. The solver (possibly a computer program) must identify this factor. Full definition →