Ted Kaczynski

Theodore John Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois), also known as the Unabomber, was convicted in connection with a series of carefully planned bombings via the U.S. mail and other means which took two lives and injured several others over a period of seventeen years before he was finally apprehended in 1996. He also wrote a lengthy essay entitled Industrial Society and its Consequences, the publication of which led to his capture.

Life

Showing signs of very high intelligence early in life, Kaczynski graduated early from high school and entered Harvard University in 1958 at age 16. Graduating with a degree in mathematics in 1962, he then went to the University of Michigan where to took a Masters and PhD.

Thereafter, he moved to California where he took up a position as assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California in Berkeley. However, he resigned from that post just two years later and took up the life of a semi-hermit, working odd jobs and part time to support himself.