George Dantzig - the famous mathematician who's contributions to operations research and systems engineering have made him immortal. As a college student, George studied very hard and often late into the night. So late, that he overslept one morning, arriving 20 minutes late for Prof. Neyman's class.
He quickly copied the two math's problems on the board, assuming they were the homework assignment. It took him several hours to work through the two problems, but finally he had a breakthrough and dropped the homework on Neyman's desk the next day.
Six weeks later, Dantzig received a visit from an excited professor Neyman, eager to tell him that the homework problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics.
George Dantzig, worked without any thoughts of limitation, which made him solved not one, but two problems that had stumped mathematicians for several years.
George solved the problems because he didn't know he couldn't.
Moral :
He quickly copied the two math's problems on the board, assuming they were the homework assignment. It took him several hours to work through the two problems, but finally he had a breakthrough and dropped the homework on Neyman's desk the next day.
Six weeks later, Dantzig received a visit from an excited professor Neyman, eager to tell him that the homework problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics.
George Dantzig, worked without any thoughts of limitation, which made him solved not one, but two problems that had stumped mathematicians for several years.
George solved the problems because he didn't know he couldn't.
Moral :
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he/she chooses
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