Posted on 05/16/2020 6:28:23 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Havens received a 25-year sentence in Washington in 2011 after being convicted for murder. He found his love and gift for mathematics while in solitary confinement a few months after his incarceration. His journey in mathematics and research led to him publishing a first-author paper in an academic mathematics journal in January 2020.
Initially, my father, Umberto Cerruti, a number theorist who was a professor of mathematics at the University of Torino, Italy, agreed to help Havens simply because we asked him. My father thought that Havens was likely one of the many cranks that fall in love with numbers and come up with a flawed theory. To test him, he gave Havens a problem to solve.
In return, my father received a 120-centimetre-long piece of paper in the mail, and on it was a long and complicated formula. My father entered the formula into his computer and to his surprise, the results were correct!
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Ted’s early papers were about esoteric properties of analytic functions in the complex plane, and were considered quite advanced by contemporary mathematicians.
I’m glad to see an irate has finally learned to be productive is now a contributing member of society.
This should be encouraged.
I hate my phone autocorrect.
Irate should be inmate, but it is still technically correct.
Birdman?
Why does he have a chance to get out of jail? He shot a guy in the head over a meth deal.
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/crime/article25250860.html
I’m not saying he should. He can do plenty from behind bars.
And who isn't?
As information about the Unabomber started coming out I thought it was my cousin!
A PhD in math, slightly eccentric from Lombard Illinois, lived off the grid...
He worked for US Gov in DC, forever.
He shot a guy in the head over a meth deal.
Meth/math?
No cigar.
And funny!
Considering the difficulty he had in getting books and correspondence, it's clearly not.
I know someone who is incarcerated and he had much the same trouble.
If they want lower recidivism they need to do something about providing these inmates with an education or life skill that can actually be useful
And who isn’t?
Zeno’s walk, I’m in!
But this makes my brain hurt.
Unfortunately, the reality is that unreformed inmates use these privileges to smuggle in drugs and other contraband. They wreck it for everybody.
That’s why matchbooks,in this case, are only allowed in by approved vendors,because unapproved ones would use the textbooks to smuggle in drugs.
It is why you can’t even have a ballpount pen, because of unreformed inmates. It is why he had to agree to keep these textbooks in a locked room and use them under supervision.
C-I-L-L
“He shot a guy in the head over a meth deal.”
Hasn’t almost everyone?
Wait, never mind...
His naivete just might help him solve it.
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