She served as a sounding board for his scientific ideas and helped to check the math in his papers, but eventually their relationship disintegrated.

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He insists on flying coach (his wife once sent him a drink from first class), and his office at the headquarters of Kaiser-Francis Oil, crammed with teetering stacks of papers, is fit less for an oil tycoon than for a math professor.

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