Surya Ganguli on Dantzig: believing a hard problem is solved helps you solve it
SuryaGanguli · x · 2026-09-09
Stanford professor Surya Ganguli recounts Dantzig's famous 1939 feat: he solved two open math problems he mistook for routine homework. The moral—sometimes you need to believe a hard problem has already been solved in order to actually solve it.
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