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2 Comments to "Mathematician Who Moonlighted as a Night Watchman Solved 37-Year Old Math Problem"
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Rhea
March 27th, 2008 at
8:27 am
This story is right out of “Good Will Hunting.” In that film, the MIT janitor was the brainiac.
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roger
March 27th, 2008 at
9:22 am
It is nothing like Good Will Hunting. He was an accomplished, professional mathematician with a full career behind him who as the result of his immigration and cultural adjustment had to take a temporary security guard job. I keep seeing this story all over the Internet, titled with some variation of “lowly night watchman proves to be a math genius”. Thats not the remarkable part of this story.
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