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I think a young Harvard math professor wrote about this in the 90's.

Sorry, but are we supposed to get this reference, or start Googling for math professor cancer?

Ted Kaczynski

Doctor Ted Kaczynski

That’s what I thought originally but he wasn’t ever professor at Harvard and he was in his 50s in the 90s so it must be someone else.

Berkeley, not Harvard. He was a Harvard graduate, but taught at Berkeley, and in fact was the youngest math professor in Cal history.