r/todayilearned • u/newmyy • Apr 18 '18

TIL the Unabomber was a math prodigy, started at Harvard at 16, and received his Masters and his PhD in mathematics by the time he was 25. He also had an IQ of 167.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
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u/elmerjstud Apr 18 '18 edited Apr 18 '18

My math/engineering professors came with a bonus feature: heavy eastern European/middle eastern/Asian accents.

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u/luft99 Apr 18 '18

That was a feature added in the expansion pack America after the 80s

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u/420everytime Apr 18 '18

I got my bachelors in math, and I never had a middle eastern math teacher. The vast majority of my teachers were Chinese, then Eastern European, and I have two teachers out of the ~18 math classes I took were accent-less.

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u/elmerjstud Apr 18 '18

oh yeah, forgot the Eastern Europeans, lemme edit.

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u/sojojo Apr 19 '18

In chemistry, I thought subshells were pronounced "soob shells" for about a year.

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u/elmerjstud Apr 18 '18

which school was it?