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thraxiltoday at 10:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

I took his Introduction to Cryptography class when he was a visiting professor at Columbia. Absolute master of an old-school chalkboard lecturer. They don't make them like that any more.


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arbugetoday at 1:37 PM

I know him from Harvard and came here to say pretty much the same thing. RIP.

medinatoday at 12:40 PM

Hugely engaging, the margins of my notebook had many of his quips… there was an archive online somewhere.

e.g., x minus x is zero, even for Euler, so therefore…

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