Dantzig was the guy who showed up late to statistics class one day, saw some problems on the blackboard, wrote them down, and turned in the solutions a couple w

Dantzig was the guy who showed up late to statistics class one day, saw some problems on the blackboard, wrote them down, and turned in the solutions a couple weeks later apologizing for the lateness and saying that that week's assignment seemed harder than usual. No George, that wasn't a homework assignment, those were examples of then-currently unsolved problems in that particular topic. The professor showed up at Dantzig's house on a Sunday morning asking Dantzig to sign the paper so it could be sent off for publication. That was the first moment that Dantzig had any inkling that it wasn't the regular course homework. A true legend. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-unsolvable-math-problem/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-unsolvable-math-proble...