Patrick Michael Grundy

Patrick Michael Grundy
Born(1917-11-16)November 16, 1917
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
DiedNovember 4, 1959(1959-11-04) (aged 41)
EducationMalvern College (1935)
Clare College, Cambridge (1939)
University of Cambridge (PhD, 1945)
Known forSprague–Grundy theorem
Grundy number
SpouseHillary Taylor
MotherC. V. Grundy
Scientific career
Fieldsmathematics
InstitutionsUniversity College of Hull
Rothamsted Experimental Station
National Institute for Educational Research
University of Oxford

Patrick Michael Grundy (16 November 1917, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight – 4 November 1959) was an English mathematician and statistician. He was one of the eponymous co-discoverers of the Sprague–Grundy function and its application to the analysis of a wide class of combinatorial games.

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