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| | David Robbins, NSA Cryptologist, Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | David P. Robbins, a mathematician who broke codes and cryptological problems for the government and devised an algebraic formula that became widely recognized in the mathematical world, died on Sept. 4 at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 61. |
 | | David Peter Robbins was born in Brooklyn on Aug. 12, 1942. |
 | | Robbins published formulas for pentagons and hexagons in 1994, but finding a general formula for a polygon with any number of sides, last known to have been tried by the 19th-century mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius, eluded him for decades. |
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