Leighton is a little verbose.
But Leighton , the illustrator of this book, is just somebody I've known a long time and I've just always loved his little drawings,
Angus Leighton is not Ryan McGarry in real life.
Tom Leighton and his colleagues at MIT had been working for some time by the time Danny arrived there at MIT on a way to end what they had called the World Wide Wait.
Tom Leighton , who was still teaching at MIT at the time, and his wife, who was also a very successful professor at MIT and world-renowned,
And that's how Leighton chose to do that.
And so I gave Leighton , in the back of the book, there's a little-- I love his-- he always remains incognito.
And that happens to be Leighton 's nickname.
was a professor named Tom Leighton , who had been at both Princeton and MIT and was already a world-renowned expert at a very young age
It's like 35 years old," or however old Leighton is.
And I said, "So Leighton , you're not a forager.
It was my idea to write it and have Leighton do all the illustrations.
Fortunately for him, Tom Leighton agreed.
His big dream was to become a professor like Tom Leighton , to get his PhD at MIT, and to become
And he looked at them-- this was actually Tom Leighton 's wife-- and said, no way.
And I just assumed that Leighton would not know this book because he's not an outdoorsman kind of guy.
On page 66, my buddy Leighton -- years ago, I wanted to do a "Toxic Avenger" style comic book.
us the summer that I was born um a Caltech astronomer named Robert Leighton
In any case, when I got my buddy Leighton to do all the art
But in any case, the point being that while I was talking to Leighton , and he was telling me
And I got a lot of emails and one of them was from a guy called Tom Leighton who actually played with Richard Feynman.
So Danny joined up at MIT and, eager to impress Professor Leighton , started working on an idea for his master's thesis.
And you know, when things come together like that-- it was sort of at that moment that-- I knew from the start that Leighton
But on the last couple pages, page 258, 259, I let Leighton tell the story of his grandfather Richie Lovejoy, who was best friends with Ed Ricketts and John
So at MIT, in the Lab for Computer Science, Tom Leighton 's group was working on using theoretical math to solve this problem.