George Dantzig, William Sidis, Srinivasa Ramanujan? Who was the real Good Will Hunting? More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Maths in Good Will Hunting: http://www.youtube.com/wa...
========== 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...