and technically the star one is wrong he said one point can not have more than one branch the center dot has many if you look at it from a different point of view
Well let's imagine that you were watching terminator 2 for the first time, and then you happen to discover that every weapon Arnold uses is clearly made of say liquorice. That would be the same thing basically. It wouldn't make the movie unwatchable, naturally. But it would turn it in to kind of a joke.
@slauge Agreed. I was disappointed when I found out that the solution involved simple geometric series, and this all occurred barely halfway into the film.
I reacted strongly when I saw Good Will Hunting, and those few simple assignments about generators and adjacency matrices presented as results that took the MIT math department years to show. I'm pretty sure that the math advisors for the movie thought it would be funny to troll the film makers completely :). It did indeed turn the movie into a complete joke.
But the Fourier transform that he had to solve first, now that is real math! They should've switched the problems in the movie for people who actually know what theyre talking about.
As a fellow Doctor of Mathematics, graph and game theorist, I'm going to say this. TAKE A FUCKING CHILL PILL. You've obviously never done anything noteworthy in your whole fucking life. I mean FFS the number of retards getting PhD's these days, the problem is so bad I could probably train a fucking monkey to get a PhD.
@PavePaws "Maths" is the British abbreviation of "mathematics", and is completely correct in the UK. Judging by the fact that Gresham College is in the UK, it would seem reasonable for them to use "maths" instead of the American "math".
@iceberg3945 looks to me like the title was meant to say Good Will Hunting's Math Problem, they just threw the s on the wrong word. The British have the same rules for making words possessive as do us Americans. "Maths" is a colloquialism and shouldn't be used in academic situations
@freddycheeny It isn't possessive 'Maths' is spoken English, completely acceptable as a diminution of mathematics. If you care to do a bit of checking you will find that this particular colloquialism is older than your country ! He's an Englishman, lecturing in an English College in England, why on Earth would he therefore use an American English colloquialism.
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yeah and if you looked hard enough you could tell that the marks on his face from the fight were just makeup illusions and not real battle scars...what's your point, OLD BOY?
Its like when a geek disputes STAR WARS for it's inaccuracies.
Maybe in the movie he was saying it took them 2 years because they had to figure out how many possible trees there are. Starting people off saying "there are 10 trees, find them" is a lot different than trying to find every possible tree without knowing how many there actually are because it hasn't been done before.
Wow its obviously not like they had to figure it our in 10years stop boasting about how smart your students and take the time to realize that its a move! How do you like them apples?
@stayjit1 It's impossible to find 11. You have to have 2 that are the same, but perhaps how you drew them is making them look different from each other.
this whole argument is pointless because he's talking about the wrong problem. while will hunting DID solve this problem, it was the second time he wrote on the blackboard. the first problem, the one Prof Lambeau is talking to the class about, is a problem in linear algebra. found here:
math.harvard.edu/archive/21b_f all_03/goodwill/
i have no clue about anything having to do with algebra, i just watched this movie and wanted to inform you that prof. wilson is mistaken.
@redteamgoredteamgo hmmm... I just watched the scene, and this IS the problem that the MIT prof said took them 2 years to solve. Where he sees Will writing, yells at him to stop, etc. Unless of course the youtube scene is edited somehow...
@redteamgoredteamgo The second problem is the one that Prof. Lambaue was saying took two years for them to prove, and the next problem that Will solves is this tree graph, so I assume thats the one the Prof. was talking about. And yeah, I know it's a movie and not everything has to be accurate to get the point across. It is kinda funny though that when you break that problem down it's much easier than the movie would have you believe, yet it took "MIT professors" two years to solve.
@redteamgoredteamgo You're right, I think the teacher here confuses the two different blackboard challenges in the movie. And for that matter, the problems posted on the board doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the class shown, since it was a challenge from the teachers to all the student, just not that class.
But the underlying message is still correct, a movie can easily make science appear far harder than it really is.
@redteamgoredteamgo Actually the first problem he solves is very simple too, every bachelor candidate engineering-student should be able to solve it :-)
maybe his students are smarter than MIT professors, but none of them are skilled enough to win an Oscar. typical egomaniacal college professor in love with the sound of his voice.
This whole GWH thing is inspiring me to do math. However, I'm a composer...and I only know musical math...and I don't feel like learning anything else.....and that sucks, lol.
I've yet to take graph theory. May or may not. I know that it's being used extensively in theoretical chemistry, physical chemistry/chemical physics, and theorectical physics.
I've skimmed through several books. The requirements are rather modest at the introductary level: linear algebra and advanced calculus. Basically, the mathematics for any physicist or physical chemist.
As a high level classical pianist, I can say the exact same thing happens in movies about music. The movie writers put the stupidest stuff on the screen.
-Stammers for a moment. Looks at the problem... Pulls out a gun and shoots the paper to shreds. Stares teacher down.- THATS FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO SOLVE!!! (Ripped up peice of paper says 2+2 = ?)
@adizzle82 He's just pointing out how dumb (movie producers) think people are. The fact is that the film presented a problem as being solved after two years by MIT faculty, and yet, it could be solved in two hours by high school students.
If there is any doubt that Damon is completely ignorant of university mathematics, consider this: in the screenplay for this film, Matt refers to Lambeau's specialty as "Combunatorial Mathematics" on more than one occasion. And never with the correct spelling.
Because the human mind can be infinite in its quest to grow, as well as to take in, and process information. If there were never people who took the time to write things like this, we probably wouldn't have any number of things we depend on and take for granted, from steel and plastic to music and aspirin, to watches, computers, and space travel. Trust me, people who take the time to write things like this are to be grateful for.
wrote this movie, Matt and Ben copied my idea, im still suing them for 50 million dollars but i cant win because im a poor schmuck who should have never passed my screenplay to matt damon when i saw him in hollywood
wrote this movie, Matt and Ben copied my idea, im still suing them for 50 million dollars but i cant win because im a poor schmuck who should have never passed my screenplay to matt damon when i saw him in hollywood
and in the scheme of things who gives a right royal toss does it provided food for third world nations ? beds for the homeless in any country you would like to pick, NO but it does put euros in you pocket
With all the respect! Although it is not exactly my area of expertise. How do you prove that these all the ONLY ones? A little research on counting trees and related structures goes back to combinatorial arguments of masters such as Polya e.t.c. Theorems that do the counting are not trivial at all!!! There is a nice review paper by Harady & Prins. Saying that the problem is trivial is only meant for impressing people. THEY ACTUALLY ASKED M.I.T FACULTY FOR THESE PROBLEMS.
@powerbookg I'm implying if you are asking me, that they asked professors in Cambridge area (was it M.I.T or Harvard I don't know) to support them and pose some non-trivial , solved problems that an average M.I.T student taking a Finite Elements course would find challenging. A review of the movie was actually given by a Professor in Cambridge (you can find it in an old version of the Bulletin of AMS). People in Hollywood, when they do real business they can afford asking those that know ;)
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You know nothing about math. This problem is as easy to PROVE as it is to solve. Second of all, in any serious math problem solving (college level and upwards) "find all X" AUTOMATICALLY means "find all X AND prove there are no other X".
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Yeah I would assume having completed second year calculus as a high school student means I know 'nothing' about math. Plus I would really like to see your proof for this problem.
this comes from the same guy who wrote : "His that type of guy ... ?"
its not His, its He is. dumb ass. if you're gonna be an asshole and be grammatically and punctually picky, you should make sure you write your comments properly first.
You cynical idiots are just jealous of brillant talented people. Good Will Hunting was still Matt and Ben's idea. Everyone needs help sometimes. Bitter jealously if you ask me.
The source of the belief that this story is "original" is the biggoted idea than no Boston local could ever master complex academic material, and that anyone who imagines otherwise is so creative they deserve an award.
I lived it, my friends, and Matt... apparently took notes.
I think the movie was actually aiming at an observation on our society, the way we define freedom as the pursuit of acquisition of money and recognition. Will Hunting, the archetypal genius, stepped outside that construct, is tempted by it, and in the end rejects.
That's the original story.
The Boston local angle was only for character development.
Uhmmm... if you saw the movie, and you saw that it said in the credits; "written and directed by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon"... if you didn't see that you shouldn't be talking shit, if you did, then that's even worse.
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I seen the movie and it does say it was written by them...I don't believe it. Where is Affleck's career now? Why doesn't he write?Oh yeah, he needs Damon! They should really get together again and "write" another brilliant movie! Once again, there is no proof that they wrote it. Credits on the screen are easily written in, but not a screenplay. You are also going to tell me that Jimmy Page wrote Dazed and Confused....you people are so dumb because you believe everything you read.
Reminds me of so many celebs, say Jenny mcCarty, who in the pictorial of Playboy said "I hate to read books", then she publishes a book....etc, etc....so easy to hire writters these days :(
I wrote this movie, Matt and Ben copied my idea, im still suing them for 50 million dollars but i cant win because im a poor schmuck who should have never passed my screenplay to matt damon when i saw him in hollywood
I wrote this movie, Matt and Ben copied my idea, im still suing them for 50 million dollars but i cant win because im a poor schmuck who should have never passed my screenplay to matt damon when i saw him in hollywood
I wrote this movie, Matt and Ben copied my idea, im still suing them for 50 million dollars but i cant win because im a poor schmuck who should have never passed my screenplay to matt damon when i saw him in hollywood
In the film he didn't prove anything, if you look at the chalkboard when he has finished it only solves the question showing the various trees possible: there is no proof involved, but it probably looked better cinematographically than yet another scrawl of equations.
I completely agree... just as any undergrad can solve a multi-variable calculus problem... very few can actually construct proofs at the fundamental level built off of pure logic.
are you kidding me with all this arguing about war, and different nations wars in history on a video about a math problem, how do these arguements even get started you f*cking retards who have nothing better to do than just argue, on every single you tube thread there is. I swear type in any random youtube video, scroll down a short ways, and some random argue begins that has nothing to do with the content of the video. It is completely moronic.
1:45....and joke bombs...ouch
oddthomas201 5 days ago
i got here from cops..... wtf?
WeAreHawkers 4 weeks ago
and technically the star one is wrong he said one point can not have more than one branch the center dot has many if you look at it from a different point of view
monoxxide007 1 month ago
@monoxxide007 No, you can't have 2 branches. You just need to have 1 or more than 2.
CBMaster2 2 weeks ago
The professor says that the problem took more than 2 years to prove, not solve. Completely different...
poptartbro 1 month ago 2
I got one for ya....How about you draw all the homeomorphically irreducible trees between 0 and n="these nuts".
muscleEVmass 1 month ago
Pretty lame question. Would be cool if he asked to prove how many different trees there would be, that'd be a good question.
Bloodydigger 2 months ago
functional analysis?
vlowry211 2 months ago
wait a sec this is linear algebra? i was going to guess differential geometry or electrical engineering applications
MrBigEnchilada 2 months ago
@EddieJamesCarney
Well let's imagine that you were watching terminator 2 for the first time, and then you happen to discover that every weapon Arnold uses is clearly made of say liquorice. That would be the same thing basically. It wouldn't make the movie unwatchable, naturally. But it would turn it in to kind of a joke.
slauge 3 months ago
@slauge Agreed. I was disappointed when I found out that the solution involved simple geometric series, and this all occurred barely halfway into the film.
pythor2 3 months ago
LOL, there really isn't purpose for saying this.
MegaKillaKrazy 3 months ago
I reacted strongly when I saw Good Will Hunting, and those few simple assignments about generators and adjacency matrices presented as results that took the MIT math department years to show. I'm pretty sure that the math advisors for the movie thought it would be funny to troll the film makers completely :). It did indeed turn the movie into a complete joke.
slauge 4 months ago
It is a MOVIE...... For.... ENTERTAINMENT...!
MOVIES are for the MENTALLY IGNORANT.... to Entertain their LITTLE Brains...!
HOLLYWOOD.... ALWAYS... LIES...! Stupid is as Stupid WATCHES...!
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mphello 2 months ago
Fuck maths I'd rather serve at KFC.
zerker12568901 5 months ago 4
@zerker12568901 nig
anessone 4 months ago
@zerker12568901 That tells a lot about ur IQ level, lolzzz
TheZindarod 3 months ago
I don't like them apples.
remoman 7 months ago
his father beat him with a toaster after being released from prison, what a glum chap
ExplodingBacon250cc 7 months ago
Like anything - it is very easy stuff if you've been at it a while, very difficult if you've not been, like any language, etc.
rudy7921 7 months ago
But the Fourier transform that he had to solve first, now that is real math! They should've switched the problems in the movie for people who actually know what theyre talking about.
nrubey 8 months ago
Maths > Math
1337Thrug 8 months ago 4
@1337Thrug
Damn straight.
HumanMonolith 6 months ago
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
wolfdale00 8 months ago 2
Apparently 'spelling' is not part of the curriculum at Gresham.
JedClampettJr 8 months ago
As a fellow Doctor of Mathematics, graph and game theorist, I'm going to say this. TAKE A FUCKING CHILL PILL. You've obviously never done anything noteworthy in your whole fucking life. I mean FFS the number of retards getting PhD's these days, the problem is so bad I could probably train a fucking monkey to get a PhD.
ninman58 8 months ago
Oh wow this is totally beyond me.
yiany 8 months ago
Point, Match, GAME.
Thank god it's not ENGLISH that we're debating:
Good Will Hunting Maths Problem [Try GWH's math Problem]
Math is already plural in it's own being. You don't need an S.
What you need is a good kick in your S though.
PavePaws 8 months ago
@PavePaws "Maths" is the British abbreviation of "mathematics", and is completely correct in the UK. Judging by the fact that Gresham College is in the UK, it would seem reasonable for them to use "maths" instead of the American "math".
iceberg3945 8 months ago 2
@iceberg3945 I think we should adopt "maths" in the US as well :P
acdc10133 8 months ago
@iceberg3945 looks to me like the title was meant to say Good Will Hunting's Math Problem, they just threw the s on the wrong word. The British have the same rules for making words possessive as do us Americans. "Maths" is a colloquialism and shouldn't be used in academic situations
freddycheeny 6 months ago
@freddycheeny It isn't possessive 'Maths' is spoken English, completely acceptable as a diminution of mathematics. If you care to do a bit of checking you will find that this particular colloquialism is older than your country ! He's an Englishman, lecturing in an English College in England, why on Earth would he therefore use an American English colloquialism.
MrEntelechy1 6 months ago
Discrete-time Fourier transform will make your head explode.
southport97 8 months ago
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treasuretroveofmath 8 months ago
i dont care about all the pupils who got it right Proffesor. Just give me 1 who gave you different! answers. Much more interesting.
Nevawake 8 months ago
my boy is wicked smaht
bassywatitdo 8 months ago 2
@bassywatitdo:
Ben's "monkey head scratch" and the peanut popping by the little guy at the end, make the scene authentic.
PavePaws 8 months ago
FUCK THIS I SUCK AT MATH LETS GO BOWLING!
antibulletdodger101 9 months ago 4
yeah and if you looked hard enough you could tell that the marks on his face from the fight were just makeup illusions and not real battle scars...what's your point, OLD BOY?
Its like when a geek disputes STAR WARS for it's inaccuracies.
ITS A MOVIE not a documentary!
PavePaws 9 months ago
That dudes a prick. It was a movie of course they werent actually going to get a problem that takes two years to solve
rdguitar589 9 months ago
Finding the answers is very different to proving them.
mg305 9 months ago
get that guy a treadmill and some oxygen
luckylongarm1 9 months ago 4
big difference between finding the trees and PROVING that those are the only ones.
Archaebob 9 months ago 3
can someone put it in books for dummy term??
jetlorider 10 months ago
There's always one...
fiddypens 10 months ago
Whats the point? Your idiotic students didnt go to MIT.
10243406 1 year ago
not thaaat hard^^
KiriouSs 1 year ago
Maybe in the movie he was saying it took them 2 years because they had to figure out how many possible trees there are. Starting people off saying "there are 10 trees, find them" is a lot different than trying to find every possible tree without knowing how many there actually are because it hasn't been done before.
TJRy12921 1 year ago 17
@TJRy12921
Exactly. There is a difference between finding the solution and proving that there can ONLY be that solution.
tshenvideos 1 month ago
oh its the same with 2+2 = 5
pergsify 1 year ago 3
I don't give a shit about the problem. I just love the film.
TheKidninja 1 year ago 10
fucking chopsticks man...
ltuomela 1 year ago
2 *101* 2
tremblettderek 1 year ago
i went to gresham college like and they were like all thick as fuck like.
rudyburnez 1 year ago
Wow its obviously not like they had to figure it our in 10years stop boasting about how smart your students and take the time to realize that its a move! How do you like them apples?
boboleni11 1 year ago
mmmmmm, .....I was joking. You didn't get it. Chalk one up for Good Will Stayjit.
stayjit1 1 year ago
Aren't the figures in the top center and the figure in the top right corner unlike the rest?
philsnk 1 year ago
MIT ROCKS!!!!
jazher 1 year ago
it's easy
sirbuggy56 1 year ago
Hmmmm, I checked again and again and I have 11. I'd show you the math, but's waaaaay too complicated for a YouTuber.
stayjit1 1 year ago
@stayjit1 cool story.
PriestRSC 1 year ago
@stayjit1 It's impossible to find 11. You have to have 2 that are the same, but perhaps how you drew them is making them look different from each other.
fatsomamacheese 1 year ago
Jesus, I'm fucking Retarted.
sSanctum 1 year ago
Sad that he took a hollywood film so serious as to waste those people's time. Anyone who thinks movies are realistic is just sad.
dafrca 1 year ago
@dafrca ohhh come on, an intelligent consideration and analysis of anything people find interesting can't be a waste of time :)
alaskannarwhal 1 year ago
hey, I came up with all 10!
huhjunsuk 1 year ago
Is it possible to do it wrong?.. I just drew some lines without even thinking about it, yet all of them are right.
StlyDutch 1 year ago
this whole argument is pointless because he's talking about the wrong problem. while will hunting DID solve this problem, it was the second time he wrote on the blackboard. the first problem, the one Prof Lambeau is talking to the class about, is a problem in linear algebra. found here:
math.harvard.edu/archive/21b_f all_03/goodwill/
i have no clue about anything having to do with algebra, i just watched this movie and wanted to inform you that prof. wilson is mistaken.
cheers.
redteamgoredteamgo 1 year ago 57
@redteamgoredteamgo hmmm... I just watched the scene, and this IS the problem that the MIT prof said took them 2 years to solve. Where he sees Will writing, yells at him to stop, etc. Unless of course the youtube scene is edited somehow...
MatroidX 1 year ago
@redteamgoredteamgo
actualy no, the second problem is the one with the trees
Cloudvs 10 months ago
@redteamgoredteamgo The second problem is the one that Prof. Lambaue was saying took two years for them to prove, and the next problem that Will solves is this tree graph, so I assume thats the one the Prof. was talking about. And yeah, I know it's a movie and not everything has to be accurate to get the point across. It is kinda funny though that when you break that problem down it's much easier than the movie would have you believe, yet it took "MIT professors" two years to solve.
MGReilly86 8 months ago 2
@redteamgoredteamgo You're right, I think the teacher here confuses the two different blackboard challenges in the movie. And for that matter, the problems posted on the board doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the class shown, since it was a challenge from the teachers to all the student, just not that class.
But the underlying message is still correct, a movie can easily make science appear far harder than it really is.
raizumichin 8 months ago
@redteamgoredteamgo Actually the first problem he solves is very simple too, every bachelor candidate engineering-student should be able to solve it :-)
schenkel123 5 months ago
@redteamgoredteamgo I guess in trying to make a joke, he sort of reinvented himself.
BrokenAeroVT 4 months ago
gresham college vs MIT? hmmm which one is better....i wonder
nray25 1 year ago
i just wasted 2 minutes of my life listening to an extremely boring englishman resembling gerald lambeau
elef003 1 year ago
maybe his students are smarter than MIT professors, but none of them are skilled enough to win an Oscar. typical egomaniacal college professor in love with the sound of his voice.
yahmpy 1 year ago
@yahmpy I would have thought being smarter than MIT professors is better than winner an Oscar.
Ragib 1 year ago
i learn somethign today :O
ymca398 1 year ago 3
This whole GWH thing is inspiring me to do math. However, I'm a composer...and I only know musical math...and I don't feel like learning anything else.....and that sucks, lol.
nusua 1 year ago
Bag of wind! You're no Matt Damon for sure...
Theryougo1 1 year ago
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"Do you know how easy this is to me? This is a fucking joke."
hsieh811 1 year ago
Come on dont ruin the movie- a great movie
bdinh14 1 year ago
im a genious?
saemsaem0kh4life 1 year ago
@saemsaem0kh4life ....you spelled 'genius' wrong..
NiMur90 1 year ago 7
@NiMur90 LMAO
rmassie11 1 year ago
@NiMur90 in England they spell it "genious". they also spell tire "tyre" and color "colour"
eciekoc 3 months ago
@eciekoc No, they don't.
NiMur90 3 months ago
@unilever98 true but what the guy did in the film was to solve it, not prove it.
emouch1 1 year ago
I've yet to take graph theory. May or may not. I know that it's being used extensively in theoretical chemistry, physical chemistry/chemical physics, and theorectical physics.
I've skimmed through several books. The requirements are rather modest at the introductary level: linear algebra and advanced calculus. Basically, the mathematics for any physicist or physical chemist.
1czelaya 1 year ago
As a high level classical pianist, I can say the exact same thing happens in movies about music. The movie writers put the stupidest stuff on the screen.
formenlehre 1 year ago 4
@unilever98 Thats true, but Will Hunting didn't prove anything, he just drew them(:
LOCUkDk 1 year ago
who listens to a lecture on math problems of fictional characters?
princesscheeba 1 year ago
@princesscheeba obviously a lot of people.
formenlehre 1 year ago
-Stammers for a moment. Looks at the problem... Pulls out a gun and shoots the paper to shreds. Stares teacher down.- THATS FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO SOLVE!!! (Ripped up peice of paper says 2+2 = ?)
Axion3812 1 year ago
did the professor died?
godbluffvdgg 1 year ago
@godbluffvdgg Yes.
PrincessUnicorn69 1 year ago
Boring !
MrManhattan007 1 year ago
This Math professor sounds like he's just trying to take revenge for what Will Hunting did to the professors in the movie...what an ass...
adizzle82 1 year ago
@adizzle82 He's just pointing out how dumb (movie producers) think people are. The fact is that the film presented a problem as being solved after two years by MIT faculty, and yet, it could be solved in two hours by high school students.
NamesForDogs 1 year ago
*looks at the problem*...
... APPLE SAUCE, BITCH!
Mrster 1 year ago 3
Haha, nice!
Volatile314 1 year ago
The majority doesnt know what it means, so it looks hard for them.. that's all what matters.
You can't expect them to actually come up with some math problem that took some professor 2 years to solve.. It doesn't add anything to the movie.
StlyDutch 1 year ago 4
How do ya like dem apples?
irishmatt123 2 years ago 144
@irishmatt123 "Apple sauce bitch"
kotwicki90 1 year ago
@irishmatt123 I dont like the sound of them apples will, what're we gonna do?
DickSimmons2 1 year ago
@DickSimmons2 Apple sauce bitch.
5yndrom3 1 year ago
@5yndrom3 Thank you :)
DickSimmons2 1 year ago
@irishmatt123 apple sauce bitch
B33f1NAT0R 8 months ago
@everyone, poo poo.
elbow93 2 years ago
How about it's a fucking movie.
generalataris 2 years ago 5
If there is any doubt that Damon is completely ignorant of university mathematics, consider this: in the screenplay for this film, Matt refers to Lambeau's specialty as "Combunatorial Mathematics" on more than one occasion. And never with the correct spelling.
"Combunatorial"? Really?!
mthai66 2 years ago
This problem is no more difficult than being asked to find (and graph) all nonabelian groups n less than or equal to (say) 16.
mthai66 2 years ago
Not if its trivial
mthai66 2 years ago
jajaja that was funny
gitanopnmex 2 years ago
What does CUNT + BASTARD = ???
It = FUCK OFF
FatherWarhol 2 years ago
Why do people take the time to write things like this?
Quine0Quine 2 years ago
Because the human mind can be infinite in its quest to grow, as well as to take in, and process information. If there were never people who took the time to write things like this, we probably wouldn't have any number of things we depend on and take for granted, from steel and plastic to music and aspirin, to watches, computers, and space travel. Trust me, people who take the time to write things like this are to be grateful for.
Rennpanzer 2 years ago
wrote this movie, Matt and Ben copied my idea, im still suing them for 50 million dollars but i cant win because im a poor schmuck who should have never passed my screenplay to matt damon when i saw him in hollywood
fancygremlin 2 years ago
OBVIOUS TROLL IS OBVIOUS
blestcurst 2 years ago
wrote this movie, Matt and Ben copied my idea, im still suing them for 50 million dollars but i cant win because im a poor schmuck who should have never passed my screenplay to matt damon when i saw him in hollywood
fancygremlin 2 years ago
OBVIOUS TROLL IS OBVIOUS
blestcurst 2 years ago 3
If you're not from Cambridge, you didn't write this movie. I know who its based on, and so do Matt and Ben.
Didn't write it, but I lived it.
mthai66 2 years ago
this merely proves that gresham college is better than hollywood in this field.
baddmanaz 2 years ago 4
and in the scheme of things who gives a right royal toss does it provided food for third world nations ? beds for the homeless in any country you would like to pick, NO but it does put euros in you pocket
grunt182820 2 years ago
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2+2=9000!!
elimination1234 2 years ago
With all the respect! Although it is not exactly my area of expertise. How do you prove that these all the ONLY ones? A little research on counting trees and related structures goes back to combinatorial arguments of masters such as Polya e.t.c. Theorems that do the counting are not trivial at all!!! There is a nice review paper by Harady & Prins. Saying that the problem is trivial is only meant for impressing people. THEY ACTUALLY ASKED M.I.T FACULTY FOR THESE PROBLEMS.
theoak111 2 years ago
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I think this guy missed the point about the movie its not about Maths....
DROPSOF198 2 years ago
i guess i can go back to my boston pancakes now.
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his voice is sexy!
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they all need to get laid BIG time ^^ god damn WHO THE FUCK CARES ??!??!?!
masterdee1202 2 years ago
Well when it's broken down like that, it seems like a pretty remedial college math problem, something true MIT profs could do in their sleep.
ohheychris 2 years ago 2
It was a joke. You're implying the film was based on real MIT profs who didn't know what they were doing.
powerbookg 2 years ago
@powerbookg I'm implying if you are asking me, that they asked professors in Cambridge area (was it M.I.T or Harvard I don't know) to support them and pose some non-trivial , solved problems that an average M.I.T student taking a Finite Elements course would find challenging. A review of the movie was actually given by a Professor in Cambridge (you can find it in an old version of the Bulletin of AMS). People in Hollywood, when they do real business they can afford asking those that know ;)
theoak111 1 year ago
2 + 2 = 5
454498 2 years ago 30
only youtube can you find people arguing over the good will hunting math problem got to love it lol
brian411 2 years ago 65
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You know nothing about math. This problem is as easy to PROVE as it is to solve. Second of all, in any serious math problem solving (college level and upwards) "find all X" AUTOMATICALLY means "find all X AND prove there are no other X".
SerbAtheist 2 years ago
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Yeah I would assume having completed second year calculus as a high school student means I know 'nothing' about math. Plus I would really like to see your proof for this problem.
MrJosephMorris 2 years ago
At that level, your exposure to proof would have been limited to schoolboy geometry and basic delta-epsilon proofs.
mthai66 2 years ago
The second conjunct implies the first.
mthai66 2 years ago
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fucking nerds
smilingjacko90 2 years ago
These nerds are owning the world, you little ignorant fuck.
R4nd0mEvi1 2 years ago
he people who own the world are the ones with the money, not the brains
JUKIO01 2 years ago
how do they get the money with no brains? stealing, scaming or w.e other excuse you come up with involves brain. if it didn't you would have it.
tosb38 1 year ago
inheritance
JUKIO01 1 year ago
there are many millionaires and billionaires whose parents didn't have anything.
you're just being ignorant.
tosb38 1 year ago
i am talking about the elites, DUMBASS!!!
JUKIO01 1 year ago
oh your that type of guy... haha
this conversation is over.
tosb38 1 year ago
run away bitch! coward!
JUKIO01 1 year ago
His that type of guy ... ?
MrMZaccone 1 year ago
@MrMZaccone why do you ask a question i just answered>
tosb38 1 year ago
@tosb38 For the same reason you use the posessive in place of the proper contraction and fail to end questions with question marks.
MrMZaccone 1 year ago
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@MrMZaccone
this comes from the same guy who wrote : "His that type of guy ... ?"
its not His, its He is. dumb ass. if you're gonna be an asshole and be grammatically and punctually picky, you should make sure you write your comments properly first.
tosb38 1 year ago
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There is no proof that Damon and Afleck actually wrote the movie.....Good movie but seriously in la la land. Math, now there is something to admire!
lexcorona85 2 years ago
You cynical idiots are just jealous of brillant talented people. Good Will Hunting was still Matt and Ben's idea. Everyone needs help sometimes. Bitter jealously if you ask me.
jc2333 2 years ago
Yes I'm talking to you corona.
jc2333 2 years ago
[sarcasm]Such an original idea[/sarcasm]
The source of the belief that this story is "original" is the biggoted idea than no Boston local could ever master complex academic material, and that anyone who imagines otherwise is so creative they deserve an award.
I lived it, my friends, and Matt... apparently took notes.
"At least I won't be unoriginal" my ass.
mthai66 2 years ago
"I lived it, my friends lived it, and..."
fixed
mthai66 2 years ago
@mthai66
I think the movie was actually aiming at an observation on our society, the way we define freedom as the pursuit of acquisition of money and recognition. Will Hunting, the archetypal genius, stepped outside that construct, is tempted by it, and in the end rejects.
That's the original story.
The Boston local angle was only for character development.
monkeytwineball 2 years ago 2
Yes, there is proof, they got an Oscar.
There is no proof that they didn't write it actually.
theBeorn 2 years ago
Uhmmm... if you saw the movie, and you saw that it said in the credits; "written and directed by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon"... if you didn't see that you shouldn't be talking shit, if you did, then that's even worse.
Emmedagonn 2 years ago
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I seen the movie and it does say it was written by them...I don't believe it. Where is Affleck's career now? Why doesn't he write?Oh yeah, he needs Damon! They should really get together again and "write" another brilliant movie! Once again, there is no proof that they wrote it. Credits on the screen are easily written in, but not a screenplay. You are also going to tell me that Jimmy Page wrote Dazed and Confused....you people are so dumb because you believe everything you read.
lexcorona85 2 years ago
Reminds me of so many celebs, say Jenny mcCarty, who in the pictorial of Playboy said "I hate to read books", then she publishes a book....etc, etc....so easy to hire writters these days :(
kubikdoctor 2 years ago
I wrote this movie, Matt and Ben copied my idea, im still suing them for 50 million dollars but i cant win because im a poor schmuck who should have never passed my screenplay to matt damon when i saw him in hollywood
fancygremlin 2 years ago
but i'm sure you are good friends with robin williams
baddmanaz 2 years ago
I wrote this movie, Matt and Ben copied my idea, im still suing them for 50 million dollars but i cant win because im a poor schmuck who should have never passed my screenplay to matt damon when i saw him in hollywood
fancygremlin 2 years ago
So the movie came out in 1997. You wrote the script when you were ~11 years old?
Smart boy!
dash0r 2 years ago
I wrote this movie, Matt and Ben copied my idea, im still suing them for 50 million dollars but i cant win because im a poor schmuck who should have never passed my screenplay to matt damon when i saw him in hollywood
fancygremlin 2 years ago
It's a movie. Just watch and enjoy.
realisticHomeboy 2 years ago 8
That's right.
lexcorona85 2 years ago
how did this video spark a discussion about US and WW2?!?!?!
mrKreuzfeld 2 years ago
In the film he didn't prove anything, if you look at the chalkboard when he has finished it only solves the question showing the various trees possible: there is no proof involved, but it probably looked better cinematographically than yet another scrawl of equations.
1971matteo 2 years ago
I completely agree... just as any undergrad can solve a multi-variable calculus problem... very few can actually construct proofs at the fundamental level built off of pure logic.
RonT222 2 years ago
How is there a political debate going on within this good will hunting video?
waterman1976 2 years ago 2
what the fuck is in this guys mouth
Valefor242 2 years ago
are you kidding me with all this arguing about war, and different nations wars in history on a video about a math problem, how do these arguements even get started you f*cking retards who have nothing better to do than just argue, on every single you tube thread there is. I swear type in any random youtube video, scroll down a short ways, and some random argue begins that has nothing to do with the content of the video. It is completely moronic.
malachi743 2 years ago