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).<p>Patterson now applies his mathematical prowess to investigating human genetics at the Broad Institute  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/science/12prof.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/science/12prof.html</a> . (Sorry to continually add biological asides to all of these discussions.)