NDSU Has Officially Arrived

[Bison bison]

NDSU mathematics doctoral student Lindsay (Merchant) Erickson is fascinated by the ancient game of Nim. A two-player pastime of combinatorial game theory, Nim's origins date hundreds of years ago in China.

http://www.ndsu.edu/news/banner_stories/ancientcomplexgame/


Talk about a completely worthless thing to study - that is - the kind of thing they study at elite schools!!!

[MNLonghorn10]

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[duluthbison]

NDSU mathematics doctoral student Lindsay (Merchant) Erickson is fascinated by the ancient game of Nim. A two-player pastime of combinatorial game theory, Nim's origins date hundreds of years ago in China.

http://www.ndsu.edu/news/banner_stories/ancientcomplexgame/


Talk about a completely worthless thing to study - that is - the kind of thing they study at elite schools!!!

We arrived years ago when they started mapping this....

http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/

[tony]

Oh, so my work creating a program that could defeat the world's greatest Connect Four players wasn't impressive enough?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Four