David Gale is a mathematician credited with the discovery of the Gale transform (or Gale diagram) of a point or vector configuration. Leonhard Euler is considered by many people to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is mathematics. ...
Gale studied at Princeton University in the late 1940s.
Inventor of the game Bridg-It, also known as "Game of Gale". The Shannon switching game is an abstract strategy game for two players, invented by the father of information theory, Claude Shannon. ...
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Unrelated to the main character of the same name in the 2003 feature movie The Life of David Gale portrayed by Kevin Spacey. The Life of David Gale is a 2003 motion picture that tells the fictional story of a philosophy professor, David Gale, who was dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty and who was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a colleague and fellow abolitionist. ... Spacey as Lex Luthor in the upcoming film Superman Returns Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959), better known as Kevin Spacey, is an American actor. ...
All this is shown in flashback as DavidGale talks to Bitsey on the first of her three days' interviews before he is put to death on the fourth.
Gale stipulated the terms, which include a half a mil and Bitsey, chosen, he tells her, for her refusal to disclose sources on a kiddie porn piece.
As David tells her his story, though, it becomes obvious to her that the bright, intelligent, well-spoken man in the cage just may be telling the truth.