According to this Salon article, Iraqi con-man, blackguard, scoundrel and swindler Ahmad Chalabi has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, with a thesis entitled 'On the Jacobson Radical of a Group Algebra'.
Here he is in the Mathematics Genealogy Project. He can trace his mathematical lineage back to Schur, Frobenius, Weierstrass, and eventually Gauss...Though who can't, really?
This doesn't change the fact that Ahmad Chalabi is a sack of crap who bears a lot of the responsibility for the disasterous way things have gone in Iraq.
On the bright side, Art Garfunkel got an MA in mathematics from Columbia, and seems to have pursued but not completed his Ph.D. Art Garfunkel has never conned a world power into launching a poorly-thought-out war of aggression followed by an even more half-assed occupation full of repression, torture, mercenaries, and the utter obliteration of any slight chance for an acceptable outcome. Perhaps Art Garfunkel and Ahmad Chalabi were born to be one another's arch-nemeses, Art the defender of all that is good and true, Ahmad a creature of purest evil...
Octopus Jesus does not like Ahmad Chalabi. Octopus Jesus does, however, like 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters'.
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Hurrah for Octopus Jesus!