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RabbaJabba t1_jad278i wrote

> Hey, Ted Kaczynski was a brilliant mathematician whose work is still cited to this day

Is it? Google scholar seems to only show a handful of citations of his papers, mostly from when he was active.

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zebrastarz t1_jad445c wrote

The small sample is easily explained by it being an obscure area of math and the most recent citation to his most prolific work was in 2021 from a quick search...

ETA: some support about the obscurity: "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"

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RabbaJabba t1_jaein35 wrote

>his most prolific work

I hope you mean his second-most-cited work, number one is the manifesto

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