Lynde_Wee
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While searching the web, I found this bio on a cryptographic mathematician named Dan Brown (see link below). Unfortunately, he appears too young to be the father of author Dan Brown (Brown has said his father is a mathematician). Still... it would be interesting if they were related.
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AAnnAArchy
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There are lots of smart unrelated Dan Browns out there - http://www.bioinformatics.uwaterloo.ca/~browndg/ - oh wait, I think this is the same as the one you posted. He isn't anyone's father, except for that puppy's father. He's the gay Dan Brown.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~danbrown/ - the environmental Dan Brown.
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Sephia
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Another funny thing: I know of a teacher named Robert Langdon!
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Lynde_Wee
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I haven't seen anything out there about how Brown picked Robert Langdon's name (Leigh Teabing came from the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail - Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh -- Teabing is an anagram for Baigent). But I noticed that the artist who designed the ambigrams for Angels & Demons is named John Langdon, and I wondered if Brown might haved used the artist's surname for his main character. Or it could be a coincidence?
Check out John's site at: web page
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Lynde_Wee
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AanAarchy,
Actually your first Dan Brown is different than the one I listed. I checked out both sites. The one you list is "Dan G. Brown" who is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo.
The one I listed, "Daniel R. L. Brown" received three degrees from the University of Waterloo, but works for a company called Certicom. A quote from his website page suggests this "Dr. Brown" would make a great character in a novel by the author Brown.
Check this out: "Some of Dan's cryptology research interests include provable security, digital signature schemes, modes of encryption, the transport layer security protocol (TLS), secure email protocol (PGP and S/MIME), virtual private networks (i.e. VPNs, IPSec and IKE), public key infrastructure, wireless link layer security (Bluetooth, 802.11, 802.15, ...), anonymity protocols, digital rights management, biometrics, lattice based cryptography, integer factorization, and identity based encryption."
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AAnnAArchy
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Lynde_Wee <<But I noticed that the artist who designed the ambigrams for Angels & Demons is named John Langdon, and I wondered if Brown might haved used the artist's surname for his main character. Or it could be a coincidence?>>
It's no coincidence. When I bought John Langdon's book, I exchanged a few emails with him. The character *does* have his last name because of the ambigrams. That said, he's a nice guy. Buy his book.  And oh yeah, the book is pretty darned cool.
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danaholic
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My God, none of these other 'Dan Browns' are anywhere near good-looking enough to be related to Dan Brown the author!
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langdon_lover
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you could be related 
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danaholic
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Well howcome he got to be excellent at English?
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langdon_lover
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everyones different..you are excellent at science
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