
At the bar, Chuckie spots a beautiful woman, Skylar (Minnie Driver) and he hits on her, claiming to be a Harvard student himself. One night after work, Will and his best friend Chuckie and a couple of their other friends go to a bar near Harvard University. When Will turns out to have solved it correctly, Lambeau tries to track Will down. Will is discovered in the act of solving it, and Lambeau initially believes that Will is vandalizing the board and chases him away as Will insults him. Everyone wonders who solved it, and Lambeau puts another problem on the board - one that took him and his colleagues two years to prove.

The first week of classes, Will solves a difficult graduate-level math problem that Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgård), a Fields Medalist and combinatorialist, left on a chalkboard as a challenge to his students, hoping someone might solve it by the semester's end. Hence, he is unable to maintain either a steady job or a steady romantic relationship.
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An abused foster child, he subconsciously blames himself for his unhappy upbringing and turns this self-loathing into a form of self-sabotage in both his professional and emotional lives.

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