MY FAVOURITE

MATHEMATICIAN

WHO COULD HE BE?

THEODORE KACZYNSKI

EARLY LIFE
Child prodigy in
mathematics
Age 16: Accepted into
Harvard
Age 20: PhD awarded
from the University of
Michigan
Age 25: promoted to
professor at UC
Berkley
Age 27: resigned from
his professorship

INDUSTRIAL SOCIET Y AND ITS FUTURE

Kazynskis manifesto
describes the idea
that the primary
cause of a long list
of social problems
in modern society is
a distribution of what
he calls the power
process

The power process has three

e l e m e n t s : g o a l , e ff o r t a n d a t t a i n m e n t
of goal
We d ivid e hu ma n dr ives into three
groups
1. those drives that can be
satisfie d wit h minimal effort;
2. those that can be satisfied but
only at the cost of serious
effort;
3. those that cannot be adequately
satisfie d n o matter how much
effort one makes.
The power process is the process of
satisfyin g the d ri ves of the second
group

BOMBINGS
O ver the course of
seventeen years,
Kaczynski mailed
or hand-delivered
a series of
explosive devices
that killed three
people and
injured 23 more

THE RELEASE OF HIS MANIFESTO

T he 50-plus page,
35,000-word
essayIndustrial
Society and Its
Future was
published by the
New York Times on
September 19, 1995

ARREST
The FBI received over a
thousand calls a day in
response to the offer
of a $1mn reward for
information leading to
the UNABOMBER
Eventually his brother
recognised Theodores
philosophy and helped
the FBI track him down

WHY IS HE MY
FAVOURITE?