In 1939, George Dantzig, a young mathematics student, became the protagonist of a famous story. One day, he arrived late to class because he had overslept. Rushing in, he saw two “additional” math problems written on the blackboard. He copied them down, assuming they were part of the exam assignments. For several days, he worked tirelessly until he solved them.
But here’s the surprise: those problems were not exam questions. They were actually famous unsolved problems in mathematics—so difficult that they normally required years of collaboration among top scientists to solve.
Dantzig had no idea they were difficult to solve, and yet, he solved them.
What happened here?
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