122: Good George Dantzig!

August 04, 2020 00:05:00
122: Good George Dantzig!
Brain Junk
122: Good George Dantzig!

Aug 04 2020 | 00:05:00

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Trace Kerr Amy Barton

Show Notes

In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will is a janitor at MIT--he solves some impossible math problems and shocks the professors. That origin story is taken straight from real life (sort of). George Dantzig was a brilliant mathematician who got his start when he was late to class one fateful day and solved some math problems nobody thought could be solved.

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