Mathematician:Roland Percival Sprague
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Mathematician
German mathematician, known for the Sprague-Grundy Theorem and for being the first mathematician to find a perfect squared square.
Nationality
German
History
- Born: 11 July 1894 in Unterliederbach, Germany
- Died: 1 August 1967
Theorems and Definitions
Results named for Roland Percival Sprague can be found here.
Publications
- 1935: Über mathematische Kampfspiele (Tôhoku Mathematical Journal Vol. 41: pp. 438 – 444)
- 1937: Über zwei Abarten von Nim (Tôhoku Mathematical Journal Vol. 43: pp. 451 – 454)
- 1948: Über Zerlegungen in ungleiche Quadratzahlen (Math. Z. Vol. 51: pp. 289 – 290)
- 1963: Recreation in Mathematics
- 1969: Unterhaltsame Mathematik (2nd edition)