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...alleged Unabomber showed, the law doesn't quite know what to do with someone who may be both crazy and cunning. The former Berkeley math professor managed, with his shifting demands and refusal to cooperate, to twist the case into a knot of conflicting legal rights that only a mathematician could untangle. Who should really shape the defense: lawyer or client? Can attorneys be forced to present a defense they think is virtually suicidal? If someone is sane enough to stand trial, does that mean he's sane enough to defend himself if his best defense is that...
Graustein Professor of Mathematics Raoul Bott has a favorite story about the meandering path he took to become a mathematician. As a graduate student disillusioned by engineering, he went to the Dean of the Medical School at McGill University in Canada to see if he could become a doctor...
...good to humanity? Is that why you want to be a doctor?' I hesitated in answering this, and he said, 'Because they make the worst doctors.' I got out and said to myself, 'Thank you, you sonofabitch.'Then I said, 'OK, I'll be a mathematician, because that's what I like...
Kaczynski Request Denied Unabomber-accused Theodore Kaczynski failed in his bid to fire his defense team and appoint a new attorney. Do more courtroom surprises await as the hermit mathematician?s trial resumes today? Full Story...
...trial promises to be as much a spectacle as the preceding manhunt. Prosecutors, confident of a conviction and seeking the death penalty, have turned down a deal in which the mathematician-turned-hermit would plead guilty and serve life without parole...