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Sunday, May 4, 2008

Good morning, eager young minds

—srikanth @ 20:40

A dry question for today, brought to you Karthik Jagadeesan. Keep the guest Qs coming to [email protected]!

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.

Cracked by: varuns88 , Dibyo , akhi , svgreatest , madhur , shashank , RajT , duriel , Ajay Parasuram , sidsen , alakh_niranjan , yaksha , Rahul and Sandhip.

varuns88, Dibyo, akhi, svgreatest, madhur, shashank, RajT, duriel, Ajay Parasuram, sidsen, alakh_niranjan, yaksha, Rahul and Sandhip

Show Answer

X -> John Nash (recently popularized in “A Beautiful Mind”)