In the movie Good Will Hunting, Will is a janitor at MIT–he solves some impossible math problems and shocks the professors. That origin story is taken straight from real life (sort of). George Dantzig was a brilliant mathematician who got his start when he was late to class one fateful day and solved some math problems nobody thought could be solved.
Hey Brain Junkies, Trace and I are going to take a brief hiatus as we enter Hans Gruber season. It’s a time of year when we remember the eponymous villain for