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Leslie Valiant, a Common card
Leslie Gabriel Valiant is a British American computer scientist and computational theorist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 43
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 14,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was born to a chemical engineer father and a translator mother.
- He is currently the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University.
- Valiant was awarded the Turing Award in 2010, having been described by the A.C.M. as a heroic figure in theoretical computer science and a role model for his courage and creativity in addressing some of the deepest unsolved problems in science, in particular for his "striking combination of depth and breadth".
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Leslie Valiant article was read about 14,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 43: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Leslie Valiant
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Leslie Valiant (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Dennis Hamilton, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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