Ted Kaczynski was legitimately a mathmatics genius.
In 1967, Kaczynski’s dissertation, Boundary Functions, won the Sumner B. Myers Prize for Michigan’s best mathematics dissertation of the year. Allen Shields, his doctoral advisor, called it “the best I have ever directed”, and Maxwell Reade, a member of his dissertation committee, said, “I would guess that maybe 10 or 12 men in the country understood or appreciated it.”
People can be incredibly intelligent in one area and absolute idiots in others. Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest chess grandmasters ever … and a holocaust denier.
Ted Kaczynski was legitimately a mathmatics genius.
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People can be incredibly intelligent in one area and absolute idiots in others. Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest chess grandmasters ever … and a holocaust denier.
Fair enough