The Math Problem From Good Will Hunting

Thanks, loved the movie and I often wondered about that.

How do you like them apples!

Obviously pre-Google....now anybody can answer it....the hardest part was figuring out what homeomorphically irreducible meant....haha

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It wasn't hard to find the ten (~15 min), but it would be more of a challenge to prove that was all.

Personally, I thought the whole movie was dumb and the puzzle as I would describe it is a simple geometric matrix of sorts that most any art student or anyone who is mechanically inclined could solve an hour or less with a few sheets of paper and pencil once the understood the rules without having to use one single mathematical formula.

Given the two lead actors I figured this was going to be a good move but it left me highly disappointed in the end.

So yea I can totally see where the custodians assistant could solve the puzzle. he just needed a dictionary to understand what the words meant that defined the rules first.

Word problems (humor) can really be difficult to some people, more than others....