Raymond Redheffer
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Raymond Moos Redheffer (April 17, 1921 – May 13, 2005)[1] was an American mathematician. He was the creator of one of the first electronic games, Nim, a knowledge game.[2]
Early life
He earned his PhD in 1948 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Norman Levinson.
Career
He taught as a Peirce Fellow at
Harvard from 1948 to 1950. His teaching skills were acknowledged 6 decades later by one of his students.[3] He taught for 55 years at the University of California, Los Angeles,[4] writing more than 200 research papers and three textbooks.[1]
Notable and unusual is the physically motivated discussion of the functions of
Men of Modern Mathematics that was printed and distributed by IBM. He collaborated with Eames on a series of short films about mathematics,[1] and may have invented a version of Nim
with electronic components.
Recognition
- UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award (1969).
Books
- Sokolnikoff, Ivan Stephen; Redheffer, Raymond M. (1966). Mathematics of Physics and Modern Engineering. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-059625-2.
- ISBN 978-0-07-037492-8.
- Redheffer, Raymond M. (1991), Differential equations : theory and applications, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, ISBN 0-86720-200-9.
- Redheffer, Raymond M. (1992), Introduction to Differential Equations, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, ISBN 978-0-86720-289-2.
References
- ^ a b c Gamelin, Theodore W. (2005), In Memoriam: Raymond Redheffer, University of California Senate.
- ^ A História dos Games - A origem (1942-1961)
- ^ Seligman, Stephen J. (2009) Precepts for Freshmen, The Harvard Crimson September 2
- ^ Raymond Redheffer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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