Nick Patterson is mentioned early in this article as a mentor to Cocks (half of the Cocks-Ellis pair that originally invented what we know as RSA). Patterson n

Nick Patterson is mentioned early in this article as a mentor to Cocks (half of the Cocks-Ellis pair that originally invented what we know as RSA). Patterson now applies his mathematical prowess to investigating human genetics at the Broad Institute http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/science/12prof.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/science/12prof.html . (Sorry to continually add biological asides to all of these discussions.)