In the 1997 drama “Good Will Hunting,” Matt Damon’s character, Will Hunting, is a janitor who solves a complex math problem, finds a British love interest and conquers his existential demons during ...
An 80-year-old problem concerning the simplex method, known as the mathematics of optimization, was recently solved. Getty Images In the movie 'Good Will Hunting,' the protagonist, a janitor at the ...
A mathematics professor says Yu Jianchun, a 33-year-old package delivery man who has never taken advanced math classes, has ‘an instinct and an extreme sensitivity to numbers’ You can save this ...