May 4, 2008
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X is said to have invented this game, independently, after Y first invented this. Y did this at the Bohr Institute. Y was a scientist, mathematician, author and poet.
X is a mathematician as well. X became known to a larger number of people, the masses, due to a relatively recent popular culture happening. Though this happening did not really stick to all that X was privately about.
Name X and Y. Bonus stud points if you can figure out the name of the game.
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Answer:
X -> John Nash (recently popularized in “A Beautiful Mind”)
Y -> Piet Hein
The game: Hex, AKA: John, Nash, CON-TAC-TIX, etc
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May 4th, 2008 at 9:13 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1209960790 )
X - John Nash and pop culture happening is the movie
A Beautiful Mind(?)
Y - Piet Hein
The game is Hex..
May 4th, 2008 at 9:15 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1209960954 )
X: John Nash
Y: Piet Hein
game: Hex aka Nash (or John) aka Con-Tac-Tix
May 4th, 2008 at 11:59 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1209970767 )
good one!!
X = John Nash ( popular culture happening= the movie ‘A Beautiful mind’)
Y=Hein
game= game of Hex
May 5th, 2008 at 4:12 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209985923 )
X- John Nash
Y- Piet Hein
The game is Hex
May 5th, 2008 at 5:20 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209990021 )
Y–> Piet Hein
X–> John Nash
game–> Hex(Board games)
May 5th, 2008 at 5:44 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209991486 )
Game : Hex
X : John Nash
Y : Piet Hein
May 5th, 2008 at 6:21 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209993692 )
Piet Hein and John Nash.. the game is called Hex
May 5th, 2008 at 7:48 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209998908 )
X: John Nash
Y: Piet Hein
Name of the game: Hex (also called CON-TAC-TIX, Polygon, John, Nash…)
May 5th, 2008 at 8:06 am, GMT -0700 ( 1209999968 )
X - John Nash (”A Beautiful Mind”)
Y - Piet Hein
Game - Hex
May 5th, 2008 at 8:18 am, GMT -0700 ( 1210000690 )
hex nash piet hein
May 5th, 2008 at 8:21 am, GMT -0700 ( 1210000890 )
The Hex is a two-player game invented by Piet Hein(Mr.Y) in 1942 while a student at Niels Bohr\’s Institute for Theoretical Physics.
and independently by John Nash (Mr.X)in 1948(a mathematician)
the game was also called Nash or John
May 5th, 2008 at 9:56 am, GMT -0700 ( 1210006607 )
X-John forbes nash
Y-Piet hein
game-hex
May 5th, 2008 at 12:58 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1210017501 )
Easy!
Hex or Nash!
Piet Hein and John Nash
May 5th, 2008 at 8:02 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1210042951 )
X - John Nash
Y - Piet Hein
Game - CON-TAC-TIX