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Serge Lang, an Uncommon card
Serge Lang was a French-American mathematician and activist who taught at Yale University for most of his career.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 28,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Serge Lang quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Serge Lang card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1960 and was a member of the ______ group.
Answer
Bourbaki. He received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1960 and was a member of the Bourbaki group. From the Serge Lang article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Serge Lang. Serge Lang 72 · Developmental disorder 67 · Valerie Thomas 62 · Bell 430 59 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 known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra.
- He received the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in 1960 and was a member of the Bourbaki group.
- As an activist, Lang campaigned against the Vietnam War, and also successfully fought against the nomination of the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington to the National Academies of Science.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Serge Lang 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 72 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Serge Lang
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Serge Lang (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : George Bergman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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