Who was the REAL Good Will Hunting? - Numberphile

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BRADY HARAN: So good Will Hunting in the film is atroubled mathematical genius.And he solved this problem on the blackboard.There are a few candidates for the real Will Hunting.Shall we talk about them?Will Hunting solves this problem.There is an urban legend that's similar of a studentwho ran into his exam late.And he copied down the problem from the board, and he wentand solved them.And the last one seemed really hard, but hekept working on it.And he managed to solve it, and hehanded in his exam paper.And then the professor rings him that night saying, youwere only meant to do the first few problems.The last one was an unsolvable problem.Oh, you've solved it!So that's an urban legend.Great thing about that is that it happened.So the real...
Who was the REAL Good Will Hunting? - Numberphile
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