From Fermat's Library:
The guy was a bit of a polymath, here's his Britannica bio.In 1939, George Dantzig, a graduate student at UC Berkeley, solved two open problems in statistical theory, which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture by Jerzy Neyman. The two problems ended up being his entire PhD thesis. pic.twitter.com/5UzbaaQwne— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) April 24, 2020
Sometimes I feel so stupid.