'In high school, Patil got kicked out of math class for being disruptive...'
...He graduated only by persuading his school administrator to change his F grade in chemistry. He went to junior college because that's where his girlfriend was going, and signed up for calculus because she had too. He took so long to do his homework, his girlfriend would complain. "It's not like I'm going to become a mathematician," he would tell her.
now?
Patil, 37, is now an expert in chaos theory, among other mathematical disciplines...he worked for eBay on web security and payment fraud; he was chief scientist at LinkedIn...Patil first made a name for himself as a researcher on weather patterns at the University of Maryland...
um, hello. much more, here.