Ted Kaczynski, the oldest child of a Polish-American couple, Wanda and Theodore,<ref name=biography.com/> had received his Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Michigan in 1967. His dissertation entitled ''Boundary Functions'' received was judged as the best dissertation of that year, winning him a prize. From mid-1967 until July 1969 Kaczynski served as an assistant professor at [[UCLA|University of California]] at Berkeley. In July 1969, Kaczynski resigned his position as assistant professor and moved into the woods of [[Montana]] to live as a hermit. | Ted Kaczynski, the oldest child of a Polish-American couple, Wanda and Theodore,<ref name=biography.com/> had received his Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Michigan in 1967. His dissertation entitled ''Boundary Functions'' received was judged as the best dissertation of that year, winning him a prize. From mid-1967 until July 1969 Kaczynski served as an assistant professor at [[UCLA|University of California]] at Berkeley. In July 1969, Kaczynski resigned his position as assistant professor and moved into the woods of [[Montana]] to live as a hermit. |