Education
Landsburg was an undergraduate at the University of Rochester, but never completed his undergraduate requirements due to his failure to take a physical education course. He was awarded a Masters degree after he enrolled in his own course when he became a professor at the school.
Landsburg received a PhD in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1979.
He also spent time at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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