George P. Danzig arrived in his statistics class late and noticed
a problem on the chalkboard. Thinking it was homework, he jotted
down the problem and worked into the night to solve it.
He turned in his "homework" the next day, and to his professor's surprise, solved the problem. What's the big deal? That was not homework. It was an example of an "unsolvable" problem that the statistics instructor had written on the board. Mr. Danzig's work was published in the September 1986 edition of the "College Mathematics Journal."
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