Berlekamp Memorial Workshop Talks, Day 1

Aaron Siegel: "Elwyn Berlekamp and Combinatorial Game Theory" Aaron gave an amazing history of Elwyn's 56 years of publishing about games.  As he later mentioned, probably none of us at the workshop would have been in the field if it weren't for him.  This was such a great talk.  Here are some of the things I learned: At 10 years old, Elwyn was allowed to play Dots-and-Boxes with his friends in the back of the room during Math class, as he was bored by the lectures.  Thank goodness for understan