Today’s Good Will Hunting Moment

February 12, 2008 at 9:55 am | In Sciences |

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The “road coloring conjecture” — a problem that was thought up in 1970 and has plagued mathematicians the world over for 38 years — has been solved by an Israeli immigrant from the former Soviet Union.

Professor Avraham Trahtman immigrated to Israel 15 years ago and found work as a security guard and custodian, a common first step for even the most highly qualified FSU immigrants. He later joined the mathematics faculty at Bar Ilan University.

Say, maybe we could make a movie out of this…

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