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| George Bernard Dantzig who solved two mathematics problem of Einstein |
One day in 1939, George Bernard Dantziga doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived late for a graduate-level statistics class and found two problems written on the board. He quickly copied the two math problems on the board, assuming that they were the homework assignment. It took him several days to work through the two problems, but he finally completed them. The next day he dropped the homework on the professor’s desk. On a Sunday morning a few days later, George was awakened early by a call from his excited professor. Since George had been late for that class, he hadn’t heard the professor announce that the two problems on the board were mathematical mind-teasers that even Einstein hadn’t been able to solve. But George Dantzig, believing that he was working on ordinary homework problems, had solved not one, but two problems that had stumped mathematicians for hundreds of years! (Kersey, 1998)
When people are allowed to pursue goals free from presumed limitations on what they can accomplish, they just may manage some extraordinary feats through the combined application of natural talent and hard work.
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