Matt Damon is a sweeper at a prestigious university, MIT, he (Will) sees on the blackboard in a classroom two very difficult math problems, which he solves.
The little genius is caught “in the act” by an eminent math teacher who, fascinated by his prodigious gifts, decides to help him.
This singular story is a bit like that experienced by a certain George Dantzig, around 1939. While a student at Berkeley, he was taking statistics courses from a leading figure in the field, Professor Jerzy Neyman.
Arriving late for one of his classes, Danzig saw two problems on the board and he …
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