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The text is a transcript of a video that tells the stories of six people who achieved remarkable feats in mathematics, often by accident or without formal education. The six people are:
- George Dantzig, who solved two unsolved problems in statistics by mistaking them for homework.
- Yu Jianchun, who found a new method to verify Carmichael numbers without any college education.
- Shakuntala Devi, who was known as the human computer for her ability to perform mental calculations faster than machines.
- Grigori Perelman, who proved the Poincare conjecture and declined the $1 million prize and the Fields Medal.
- Ufot Ekong, who scored the highest marks in 50 years at Tokai University and solved a 30-year-old math problem.
- John Forbes Nash Jr., who won the Nobel Prize for his work on game theory and overcame paranoid schizophrenia.
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1. Dr. Jerzey Neyman was a Polish mathematician statistician who taught at the University of California in Berkeley in 1939.
2. George Dantzig was a student who arrived late to Neyman's class and mistook two unsolved problems on the board for homework.
3. Dantzig solved the two problems and submitted them to Neyman, who later published them with Dantzig's permission.
4. Dantzig's work contributed to the development of simplex programming and linear programming, which are essential for computers.
5. Yu Jianchun was a Chinese migrant worker who devised an alternative method to verify Carmichael numbers without formal education.
6. Carmichael numbers are pseudo primes that complicate the task of determining true prime numbers, which are important for computer science and information security.
7. Shakuntala Devi was an Indian prodigy who became known as the human computer for her ability to perform complex calculations mentally.
8. Devi calculated the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds, beating a UNIVAC computer that took 62 seconds.
9. Grigori Perelman was a Russian mathematician who proved the Poincare conjecture, one of the Millennium Prize problems, and declined the $1,000,000 prize and the Fields Medal.
10. The Poincare conjecture is a fundamental question in topology that deals with the classification of shapes in higher dimensions.
11. John Forbes Nash Jr. was an American mathematician who changed the world's understanding of game theory with his concept of the Nash Equilibrium.
12. Nash suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and spent years in psychiatric hospitals before recovering and receiving the Nobel Prize in 1994.
13. Nash's life and achievements were depicted in the film "A Beautiful Mind" starring Russell Crowe.
14. Shouryya Ray was a 16-year-old Indian-born student who solved a fundamental particle dynamics equation that had been posed by Sir Isaac Newton.
15. Ray's solution enabled the calculation of an object's flight path and its collision and ricochet off a barrier, which had applications in engineering and physics.
16. Ufot Ekong was a Nigerian student who scored the highest marks of any student at Tokai University in Japan since 1965.
17. Ekong solved a math problem that had been unsolved for 30 years in his first semester and developed patents for Nissan and an electric car that could reach 80 miles per hour.