Christopher Havens, a drug addict and murderer in Seattle’s felony prison, has been there for 10 years. His other addiction in recent years has made him a celebrity in his field of mathematics.
Havens was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2010 for drug use and murder. Shortly after he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for drug use and murder, he was moved to a small cell for gang fighting in prison. However, this was the key that unlocked an important key in his Life.
Inmates in single cells often face greater challenges of loneliness than the average inmate, and Mr. G, who oversees this section of the ward, often hands these inmates some “Sudoku” to pass the Time.
Havens dropped out of school in his sophomore year, and his memory and previous studies were blurred because of his drug addiction. But the sudoku puzzles appealed to him.
Almost every day, Mr. G would drop Havens a new packet of math problems, which was basically basic algebra work, and at first Havens struggled to slowly figure out what he had learned before. Soon enough, Havens found his talent for math. Just meditate, almost no topic can be difficult for him. In prison, the last thing he lacked was time.
For several months, Havens kept asking Mr. G if he had any more advanced math problems, and Mr. G gave from a set of basic homework to a sheet of math problems on paper. Until one day Mr. G said, “Havens, your ability has surpassed mine.”
▲ Havens was a math prodigy as a child. (Photo/ Reproduced from Twitter)
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In January 2013, Havens wrote to Mathematical Sciences Publishers for help, saying that he could no longer break through the bottleneck of self-study in prison and wanted guidance, and that he wanted a subscription to the field’s prestigious Annals of Mathematics. He also wanted to subscribe to the prestigious Annals of Mathematics.
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The editor of the publishing house read the letter half-heartedly and forwarded it to Umberto Cerruti, a professor of mathematics at the University of Dühring, who wrote back with a difficult question about number theory. Some time later, the publisher received a 120 cm long piece of paper with an incredibly long formula, which was the answer to the professor’s question.
The professor had to use a computer to enter the formula in order to verify Havens’ “wild” solution. And Havens said he had to take so long to solve math problems, because he was in prison without a computer, can only calculate purely by hand.
Dr. Sahai said, “Havens is the most diligent student I have ever met in my entire academic career, and he can work all day on any problem his teachers send him.”
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