Before Microsoft, Gates Solved A Pancake Problem

by David Kestenbaum, NPR

Before Bill Gates became a household name, he went to Harvard. His sophomore year, he was assigned a complicated mathematics problem captured his interest, which — no surprise — he solved. His paper on the solution was published, and until recently it remained the best solution to that problem: stacking pancakes.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, July 4, 2008