"The Accidental Math Genius: A Student'sMistake"

science 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.)
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.
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 ll) 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.
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