Her pioneering work touched on several scientific fields, and today a range of devices including lasers, atomic clocks, GPS systems and quantum computers all depend on the kinds of calculations in which she specialized
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As non-STEM majors know all too well, math can be a dangerous subject.
Nobody knew about those dangers more than former Penn State professor Patrick C. Fischer, who was a target of serial domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, also known as the “Unabomber.”
New York Times, the Unabomber mailed and hand-delivered 16 different bombs between 1978 and 1995, often targeting high-profile professors and scientists. As a self-proclaimed primitivist, the bomber’s reign of terror was an attempt to slow the development of modern technology and industrial development.
As a leader in the theoretical computer science field, Fischer became a quick target for an attack. A few years after graduating with a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT, Fischer found his way to a position as Penn State’s department head of computer science.