Education
He studied at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and was awarded a B.A. in mathematics in 1943. He then went to the University of Michigan to study for a Master's Degree which he was awarded in 1947. For his doctoral research he went to Princeton where he undertook research in game theory with Albert W Tucker as his thesis advisor. He was a Procter Fellow during 1948 and received a Ph.D. in 1949 for his thesis Solutions of Finite Two-Person Games.