EDUCATION

Elementary school:  Kotz school, rural Bertha, MN, one room school, grades 1-8. 1936-1943. (My dad did this in six years.  I was a little retarded and took seven.)

Bertha High School, Bertha, MN, 1943-1947.

B.A., Summa cum laude, mathematics and physics, Concordia College, 1951.

M.A., mathematics (physics minor), University of Nebraska (Lincoln), 1953.

Ph.D., mathematics (statistics minor), University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), 1958.  Thesis: Algebraic Extensions of Banach Algebras, under the direction of Professor B. R. Gelbaum.

MAA Summer Seminar on Rings (I. N. Herstein) and Abstract Harmonic Analysis (L. H. Loomis), Bowdoin College, 8 weeks, Summer 1965.

MAA Summer Institute on Mathematical Economics, Washington State University, 10 weeks, Summer 1972. (Began working in game theory at this point.)

North Central Section MAA Summer Seminar, Bemidji State University, Summer 1977.