This led to further work in computational mathematics at Stanford; she had ascended from college backwater to academic pinnacle with remarkable speed, and she was the only woman in her Stanford program. Among her fellow students was Len Bosack, who stood out because he washed. “Nerd culture at Stanford was pretty extreme,” Lerner recalled.52 Len “actually knew how to bathe and eat with silverware.”53 The two embarked on a fiber-optic-speed romance.54 In 1980 they married.
