I first encountered it after reading about scientific mistakes in Dan Brown's early novel, Deception Point; his "Bergofsky1 Principle" is the hilarious [and possibly deliberately humorous] fabrication, "any cryptosystem can be broken if you know the key".
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after some old guy about whose math classes lots of kids complained, although I actually enjoyed the few months I had in his classroom. I think we mostly covered early AP Calc, and somehow it was much less difficult than pre- ↩
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