papers quoting the unabomber

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+title: Eastereggs in Footnotes - Citing the Unabomber in a Math paper
+description: Ted Kaczynski was not only a Mathematician but also a domestic terrorist. Therefore citing him in a Math paper poses some challenges of acknowledging his later work.
+date: 2023-08-25
+tags:
+  - trivia
+  - unabomber
+  - easteregg
+  - math
+  - paper
+---
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+## Hiding Eastereggs in Footnotes
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+Laura Pudwell's 2007 paper <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/27643011" target="_blank">"Digital Reversal Without Apology"</a> contains an intriguing third quote, as evidenced by the accompanying screenshot. 
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+{% image "./better-known-for-his-later-work.jpg", "Quote in a Mathematics Paper from 2007" %}
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+The asterisk which denotes <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/unabomber" target="_blank">Ted Kazcynski's</a> later success appears harmless, but when considered in the context of a mathematician turned domestic terrorist, it warrants a closer inspection.
+Rather, it is evident that this footnote is intended as an Easter egg for those who are familiar with Ted Kaczynski's identity.
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+### Industrial Society and Its Future
+
+Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski killed 3 people and injured 23 others via 10 mail bombs across the United States. 
+He authored the manifesto "Industrial Society and Its Future" (35,000-words) as a social critique opposing industrialisation,
+rejecting leftism and advocating a nature-centred form of anarchism.
+Currently, he is serving 8 consecutive life sentences.