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math degrees for backgammon giants

Posted By: Jake Jacobs
Date: Thursday, 10 May 2012, at 6:12 a.m.

In Response To: math degrees for backgammon giants (Bob Koca)

Francois I am pretty sure yes. Nack definitely not. Wachtel has a doctorate in philosophy, I think. Me, I tuned out after sixth grade, but attended required classes for five years after that, the last being a trig course the last year of high school. From that I learned that there were the words: secant, cosine, tangent, etc. Other than that they have something to do with triangles, I cannot define them. Peter Jes, I am pretty sure not. I don't think Walter had an advanced degree. Here is the bio I wrote for him for Fish:

Walter was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (12/17/48) where his Dad had worked on the Bomb. He had the usual Tennessee childhood, which I believe includes shooting b’ars, attending high school with Elvis, and dating Dolly Parton. He attended Wesleyan University from 1966-1970 majoring in mathematics (“How many papers does it take to roll one of these suckers?”).

Finding no available openings at The Village Voice for mathematicians, Walter went to work for an insurance company (1970-1988). He spent a few of those years (82-85) with a software company in Indianapolis. It was there he learned backgammon, and might have stayed, a happy Hoosier, but it was discovered that he knew how to spell potato, and the natives ran him out of town.

Since 1988 he has lived quietly in the Massachusetts woods, meditating, and writing backgammon articles and software.

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