Nesmith Ankeny
Nesmith Cornett Ankeny (1927, Walla Walla, Washington – 4 August 1993, Seattle) was an American mathematician specialising in number theory.
After Army service, he studied at
MIT. He was a Guggenheim fellow
in 1958; he became a full professor in 1964 and retired in 1992.
His research was mainly in analytic number theory, on consequences of the generalized Riemann hypothesis.
He was also interested in game theory and gaming: he wrote a book on mathematical analysis of poker strategies, especially bluffing.
See also
Works
- N.C. Ankeny, Poker strategy, Basic Books (1981), ISBN 978-0-465-05839-6.
References
- ^ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
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