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Andrew Yao, an Uncommon card
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a Chinese computer scientist, theoretical physicist, and computational theorist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 27
- Power
- 86
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 28,000
Power 86 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Andrew Yao quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Andrew Yao card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Yao used the ______ theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's principle.
Answer
minimax. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's principle. From the Andrew Yao article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Andrew Yao. Andrew Yao 59 · Path 56 · August Ferdinand Möbius 52 · Emission nebula 48 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University.
- Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's principle.
- After graduating from National Taiwan University, Yao earned a doctorate in physics from Harvard University in 1972 and a second doctorate in computer science from the University of Illinois in 1975 before teaching mathematics and computer science as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Andrew Yao article was read about 28,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 27: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Andrew Yao
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Andrew Yao (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : David.Monniaux, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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