Among the group of physics honors students huddled in 1957 on a
Colorado mountain watching Sputnik bisect the heavens, one young
scientist was destined, three short years later, to become a key
player in America s own top-secret spy satellite program. One of
our era s most prolific mathematicians, Karl Gustafson was given
just two weeks to write the first US spy satellite s software. The
project would fundamentally alter America s Cold War strategy, and
this autobiographical account of a remarkable academic life spent
in the top flight tells this fascinating inside story for the first
time.
Gustafson takes you from his early pioneering work in computing,
through fascinating encounters with Nobel laureates and Fields
medalists, to his current observations on mathematics, science and
life. He tells of brushes with death, being struck by lightning,
and the beautiful women who have been a part of his journey."
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