'Ted' and 'David'

Alston chase: Ted was a mathematical genius who, from what the the atlantic article by alston chase says, kind of lays a lot of this at his dad's feet. A little brother, david, he looks up to ted. He tries to go to harvard, is rejected. David later on says, well, can i build a cabin? Ounow. I want to build a cabin on this land too. But Ted was like, no way, dude. This is my cabin and my land. So they corresponded for many rs, a thousand miles apart, about their journeys toward living off grid and getting back to nature. And then he said his brother