Lambeau refers to the prize problem as an "Advanced Fourier System", but it turns out to be a second year problem in algebraic graph theory, to be solved in four stages.Jun 18, 2001
It was all real, but none of it was actually very difficult. The "incredibly hard" blackboard problem could be solved by a student who just learned what graphs were in an afternoon or so, for example.Apr 21, 2019
In the movie, Good Will Hunting (1997), a mathematics professor challenges his students to draw all Homeomorphically Irreducible Trees of Order Ten, that is, a collection of trees each having ten dots connected by lines.
Broadly speaking, Good Will Hunting isn't based on a true story. But Damon did incorporate aspects of his personal life into the script. For example, Skylar (Minnie Driver), Will Hunting's love interest, was based on Damon's then-girlfriend, medical student Skylar Satenstein.Dec 5, 2017
Will Hunting = Will Sidis Sidis (with his adulthood estimated IQ=250-300) Could clear MIT entrance at age 8; Graduated from harvard at age 16, Entered law school age 16.
7. Matt Damon. According to reports, Matt Damon's IQ is as high as 160, which puts him in the same group as both Tarantino and Hawking — a strange trio to be sure.Oct 3, 2016
The Collatz conjecture is one of the most famous unsolved mathematical problems, because it's so simple, you can explain it to a primary-school-aged kid, and they'll probably be intrigued enough to try and find the answer for themselves.
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Good Will Hunting ends with Will setting off to drive to California to go see about a girl and reunite with Skylar (Minnie Driver), but this wasn't how things were originally supposed to go.May 29, 2021
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Matt Damon, a genius with an IQ level of 160. The guy who conceptualized Good Will Hunting, a movie that won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay while he was a college student.Aug 28, 2021
Galois was a perfect real-life model for the fictional Will Hunting. William James Sidis, born in 1898, could read at 18 months. He graduated from Harvard at sixteen and went off to Rice University as a math professor. He lasted eight months while students ridiculed him.