My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.

As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative Games,' also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties.