Good Will Hunting Maths Problem
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Uploaded by GreshamCollege on Sep 25, 2008
The problem Matt Damon's character solved in 'Good Will Hunting' - Homeomorphically Irreducible Trees of degree ten. The problem sounds complex but is actually very easy. Robin Wilson, Gresham Professor of Geometry, explains the problem and shows the simple solutions.
This is the 21st part of 'A Millennium of Mathematical Puzzles'.
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1:45....and joke bombs...ouch
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@monoxxide007 No, you can't have 2 branches. You just need to have 1 or more than 2.
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i got here from cops..... wtf?
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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
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Exactly. There is a difference between finding the solution and proving that there can ONLY be that solution.
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The professor says that the problem took more than 2 years to prove, not solve. Completely different...
1 month ago 2
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I got one for ya....How about you draw all the homeomorphically irreducible trees between 0 and n="these nuts".
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Pretty lame question. Would be cool if he asked to prove how many different trees there would be, that'd be a good question.
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functional analysis?
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wait a sec this is linear algebra? i was going to guess differential geometry or electrical engineering applications
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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
I don't give a shit about the problem. I just love the film.
TheKidninja 1 year ago 10