Good Will Hunting
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The film stars Matt Damon as a janitor at MIT who likes to party and hang around the old neighborhood and whose reading consists of downloading the contents of the library into his photographic memory. Professor Lambeau offers a prize to any student who can solve a difficult problem. The janitor of the film Will Hunting discovers a math question posted in the school as part of a challenge contest for the school's "elite" minds.
Will solves the puzzle during his time cleaning toilets. The next morning, the answer is written on a blackboard standing in the hall. Who claims credit? None of the students does. A few days later, Lambeau catches Will Hunting at the board and realizes he's the author--a natural mathematical genius who can intuitively see through the thorniest problems.
According to Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligence (MI) theory states that there are at least seven different ways of learning anything, and therefore there are "seven intelligences": body/kinesthetic, interpersonal, intra-personal, logical/mathematical, musical/rhythmic, verbal/linguistic and visual/spatial. Logical/Mathematical intelligence often called scientific thinking...