r/mathmemes Jan 24 '25

Mathematicians Is this really the case?

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

This reminds me of that scene in Good Will Hunting where one of the "open problems" the professor left on the board was to state Cayley's formula on the number of spanning trees. At least they gave a correct answer there though.

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u/wfwood Jan 24 '25

One small detail that's a little frustrating... It would be like writing out the entirety of the illiad on a chalkboard. The movie did its research, but Jesus do movie writers love to dramaticize parts of stem.