Steven Goodman Retweeted Fermat's Library
Amazing fact known to much of the world except me. Teaches many things. 1.) The importance of asking/working on the right questions. 2.) How much can be solved when we don't think something is unsolvable, 3.) Value of homework, and 4.) George Dantzig was a very smart person. 1/2https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/1071406311919771648 …
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Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary
In 1939, George Dantzig, a graduate student at UC Berkeley, solved two open problems in statistical theory, which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture by Jerzy Neyman. The two problems ended up being his entire PhD thesis. pic.twitter.com/0K6wkDgey0
4:24 PM - 9 Dec 2018
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