Charles L. Bouton
Charles Leonard Bouton was an American mathematician.
He was born in St Louis, Missouri where his father was an engineer.Education
Bouton studied in the public schools of St Louis. He later received a Master of Science degree from the Washington University. In 1898 he received his doctorate from Leipzig University. His Ph.D. advisor was Sophus Lie.Teaching
He taught at the Smith Academy, Washington University and Harvard University. From 1900 to 1902 Bouton was an editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.Publications
In 1902 Bouton published a solution of the game Nim.
This result is today viewed as the birth of combinatorial game theory.
