@Zunorama

One day in 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived late for a graduate-level statistics class and found two problems written on the board. Not knowing they were examples of "unsolved" statistics problems, he mistook them for part of a homework assignment, jotted them down, and solved them. (The equations Dantzig tackled are more accurately described not as unsolvable problems but as unproven statistical theorems for which he worked out proofs.)⁠
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Six weeks later, Dantzig's statistics professor notified him that he had prepared one of his two "homework" proofs for publication, and Dantzig was given co-author credit on a second paper several years later when another mathematician independently worked out the same solution to the second problem.⁠
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George Dantzig (himself the son of a mathematician) received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland in 1936 and a Master's from the University of Michigan in 1937 before completing his Doctorate (interrupted by World War II) at UC Berkeley in 1946. He later worked for the Air Force, took a position with the RAND Corporation as a research mathematician in 1952, became a professor of operations research at Berkeley in 1960, and joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1966, where he taught and published as a professor of operations research until the 1990s. In 1975, Dr. Dantzig was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Gerald Ford.⁠ If you’ve read this all the way to the end, I’d be really happy if you liked the video. I hope everything goes just the way you want.

@ronnormson

Totally remarkable.

@dant7498

What’s sad is that Glen never made a song called “Father”!

@stephencindrich135

No, both problems were "impossible"; he solved one.

@pastor_of_muppets_85

Interesting, especially since Glenn Danzig's real last name is Anzalone

@jerameymanuel9083

He definitely used Chegg

@charlesjohnson7965

What exactly is that formula used to figure out

@schlogman

Danzigs dad was a tv repair man and your Dad is disappointed that you lie for attention on the Internet