Mathematicians from Chicago

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Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.

Greek American physicist (1915–1999)

American mathematician

American mathematician (1905-1972)

American mathematician (1876–1951)

American mathematician

American mathematician

American mathematician (1926–2012)

American mathematician

American mathematician