Cliff Stoll

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Math ain't about numbers! If you think that math is all about numbers, you probably think that Shakespeare is all about words.
—Clifford Stoll, Numberphile - Klein Bottles

Clifford Stoll is an astronomer, author, and teacher who attained his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in 1980. As written in his 1989 book, "The Cuckoo's Egg", once the grant money employing Cliff as a designer of telescope optics for Keck Observatory dried up, Cliff would find himself saved from the unemployment office, reused as a Systems Administrator back at the computer department at the Template:Lawrence Berkeley Lab. After encountering a $0.75 accounting error in the timesharing VAX computer system, he would unravel the case of the "Hanover Hacker", implicating Markus Hess, a KGB agent who would be known as the world's first documented computer hacker.

The story has been recorded recorded as a paper in the May 1988 issue of the "Communications of the ACM" Jason Scott's Texfiles.com: http://pdf.textfiles.com/academics/wilyhacker.pdf

Cliff Stoll may be known through The Portal due to his Template:Klein Bottle company, Template:Acme Klein Bottles, which is purportedly run out of a crawlspace under his house with the aid of some kind of a robotic lift, supplying blown glass Template:Klein Bottles to many, including Template:Eric Weinstein

Cliff has also been known to appear on Template:Numberphile https://youtu.be/AAsICMPwGPY

dissertation POLARIMETRY OF JUPITER AT LARGE PHASE ANGLES https://search.proquest.com/docview/303044222/