The problem in Good Will Hunting - Numberphile
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Date: 2022-04-08
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J.
There is no real Goodwill Hunting or even anyone close to him. I liked the movie. But Willl's abilities are essentially magic. Will group up in abusive foster homes and thus didn't have Tiger-parents drilling him in math, linguistics, etc. from an early age. Presumably his guardians were exactly the opposite. He worked a regular job, hung out frequently with his blue collar friends, and then apparently from time to time leafed through math and other books and developed his mathematical abilities to a level where he was embarrassing a Fields medalist on a regular basis. No one has a similar story. Even Ramunajan sat around thinking and doing math all of the time. He produced amazing results but the most impressive ones, I believe, were when he went Cambridge and worked with a world renowned mathematician. Although everyone has different abilities, there are no short cuts. The people at the top of their fields in math, music, video games, sports, etc. are pretty much doing whatever their great at all of the freaking time or were doing it all of the freaking time from a reasonably early age. They almost universally had supportive guardians and mentors.
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There is no real Goodwill Hunting or even anyone close to him. I liked the movie. But Willl's abilities are essentially magic. Will group up in abusive foster homes and thus didn't have Tiger-parents drilling him in math, linguistics, etc. from an early age. Presumably his guardians were exactly the opposite. He worked a regular job, hung out frequently with his blue collar friends, and then apparently from time to time leafed through math and other books and developed his mathematical abilities to a level where he was embarrassing a Fields medalist on a regular basis. No one has a similar story. Even Ramunajan sat around thinking and doing math all of the time. He produced amazing results but the most impressive ones, I believe, were when he went Cambridge and worked with a world renowned mathematician. Although everyone has different abilities, there are no short cuts. The people at the top of their fields in math, music, video games, sports, etc. are pretty much doing whatever their great at all of the freaking time or were doing it all of the freaking time from a reasonably early age. They almost universally had supportive guardians and mentors.
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Christopher
Isn't the most difficult thing in mathematics, or in my experience, algebra, the proof in your work to disprove? I am a programmer and data modeler who uses trees and branches and I'm not sure you have explained them in enough detail, firstly. If you don't prove you're solution it is worse than incorrect, it is unusable and a waste of time. In programming I depend on code changing to be accompanied by comments in the code, commenting out, metadata. We all made arguments in high school about how we knew the answer without proof (and must therefore be smarter. If the answer is correct why is the insanely long way important, isn't the point to have the right answer? No. Partial credit goes to a wrong answer with partially correct solutions and the wrong answer, as it should be and ad it is in mathematics. Getting halfway counts. Your solution is simple but the method to get there and to say there are no more than 10 is no simple feat
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Isn't the most difficult thing in mathematics, or in my experience, algebra, the proof in your work to disprove? I am a programmer and data modeler who uses trees and branches and I'm not sure you have explained them in enough detail, firstly. If you don't prove you're solution it is worse than incorrect, it is unusable and a waste of time. In programming I depend on code changing to be accompanied by comments in the code, commenting out, metadata. We all made arguments in high school about how we knew the answer without proof (and must therefore be smarter. If the answer is correct why is the insanely long way important, isn't the point to have the right answer? No. Partial credit goes to a wrong answer with partially correct solutions and the wrong answer, as it should be and ad it is in mathematics. Getting halfway counts. Your solution is simple but the method to get there and to say there are no more than 10 is no simple feat
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Alan
Yea, but the character in the movie was entirely untrained - he's not a mathematician such that the problem would be easy. he's just a person who's constantly learning in life, which happens to be mathematical in nature (what he likes to learn) - so for anyone to be able to do graduate level math even if it were considered easy math to mathmeticians, it is likely impossible for someone to do who's never taken a college level math class. including googling, you can't always understand what's showing up on a google search - let alone tailor it to a real math problem.
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Yea, but the character in the movie was entirely untrained - he's not a mathematician such that the problem would be easy. he's just a person who's constantly learning in life, which happens to be mathematical in nature (what he likes to learn) - so for anyone to be able to do graduate level math even if it were considered easy math to mathmeticians, it is likely impossible for someone to do who's never taken a college level math class. including googling, you can't always understand what's showing up on a google search - let alone tailor it to a real math problem.
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Olivia
Just got a short question to anyone who can answer or help: )
Are circles only banned in this type of -triangle shape-, or is it also banned when it contains 4 or more dots (square or pentagon or whatever. Because in this case, the second one that he shows would be banned, wouldn't it? Because if you turn the middle branches to the respective side, you will get two such circles, right?
Whoever reads this, have a nice day: )
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Just got a short question to anyone who can answer or help: )
Are circles only banned in this type of -triangle shape-, or is it also banned when it contains 4 or more dots (square or pentagon or whatever. Because in this case, the second one that he shows would be banned, wouldn't it? Because if you turn the middle branches to the respective side, you will get two such circles, right?
Whoever reads this, have a nice day: )
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VANILLA
The movie isn't about the math and it really has no real outcome of the story itself it has to do with the story of the characters the math is just part of the plot, don't take the math so seriously just enjoy the idea of a kid from Boston who had a really difficult life who ended being wicked smaht and beating the stigma of of that type of life and became happy.
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The movie isn't about the math and it really has no real outcome of the story itself it has to do with the story of the characters the math is just part of the plot, don't take the math so seriously just enjoy the idea of a kid from Boston who had a really difficult life who ended being wicked smaht and beating the stigma of of that type of life and became happy.
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Lep
Always fun to look back on these and get a feel for the relationship between these two. Both so invested in and excited to partake in the process of making these that they would make extra videos on a whim (-alright, we'll talk about that first-; see also the square the circle videos. There's a certain comfy feel that's been captured in the resulting videos.
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Always fun to look back on these and get a feel for the relationship between these two. Both so invested in and excited to partake in the process of making these that they would make extra videos on a whim (-alright, we'll talk about that first-; see also the square the circle videos. There's a certain comfy feel that's been captured in the resulting videos.
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Reggy
That makes absolutely zero sense. If you were to plot the points on a graph you would have more points or possibilities. the fact you are not doing that on a chart is just silly. You know so all the points have coordinates other wise they are just kinda like floating fart dots. If the points don't exist neither does the shape, right?
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That makes absolutely zero sense. If you were to plot the points on a graph you would have more points or possibilities. the fact you are not doing that on a chart is just silly. You know so all the points have coordinates other wise they are just kinda like floating fart dots. If the points don't exist neither does the shape, right?
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mikefromspace
Wow. They based the entire movie on numbers addable to 10. The writers of this nonsense aren't smart enough to write a proper script, but apparently they're smart enough to make millions more than any mathematician or physicist by entertaining a bunch of idiots willing to pay and see this mental garble.
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Wow. They based the entire movie on numbers addable to 10. The writers of this nonsense aren't smart enough to write a proper script, but apparently they're smart enough to make millions more than any mathematician or physicist by entertaining a bunch of idiots willing to pay and see this mental garble.
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tyslink
It's the same with movies of any genre really. look at most movies that have any sort of computer -hacking- involved. it's usually some nerd in a hoodie that clicks away at a keyboard for a couple minutes then exclaims -I'm in! -.
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It's the same with movies of any genre really. look at most movies that have any sort of computer -hacking- involved. it's usually some nerd in a hoodie that clicks away at a keyboard for a couple minutes then exclaims -I'm in! -.
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