Martin Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 http://www.math.harvard.edu/archive/21b_fall_03/goodwill/ a problem that Will Hunting (Matt Damon) solves in the movie it's kind of interesting, a simple 4-point graph, the adjacency matrix for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuhrerkeebs Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 When I first say that movie I couldn't believe they were using such a simple problem to show his genius. Such a good movie tainted by such poor details like that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 fermat was solved long before that movie was made. would have been good to have that in there just for fun. i mean, hell... i was visiting a number theory professor a few months ago about a problem, and he seems to STILL be pushing the problem on students. apparently, he must still think that a simpler proof exists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srh Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Oh well...at least they used a real problem, with a real solution. I've seen too many movies where they attempt to make a maths related problem look amazingly complicated by writing random symbols and values on a blackboard that makes no sense whatsoever...or maybe it does, and I don't understand it, but by the placement of symbols etc, I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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