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A Galois week
By Petr, history, 8 years ago, In English

https://petr-mitrichev.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-galois-week.html

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Nim multiplication is cool, but what does it have to do with Galois?

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    Apparently finite fields are also called Galois fields :)

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      Fair. =) If you're interested in more crazy game theory, I will (probably for the millionth time) recommend Conway's "On numbers and games", it's a very interesting and entertaining read.

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Nim multiplication is simply not humanly possible to solve during contest. But it was posed on New Year Prime Contest 2017/2018, so...

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