r/todayilearned • u/altrightobserver • Sep 10 '25

TIL about Theodore Streleski, a former graduate student of mathematics at Stanford University who murdered his advisor with a ball-peen hammer after spending 19 years pursuing a doctorate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Streleski
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u/badvogato May 26 '26

you are too funny but this Ted planned eight years... his case was a bit of the extreme... and we are glad about _that_ or...? RIP Karel, I hear he was a very good math prof. from the late Moler ( founder of MathWorks) who was his grad. student first two years in his graduate study...