Craige Eugene Schensted is a physicist who first formulated the insertion algorithm that defines the
Robinson–Schensted correspondence; under a different form, that correspondence had earlier been described by
Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson in 1938, but it is due to the Schensted insertion algorithm that the correspondence has become widely known in
combinatorics. Schensted also designed several board games including
*Star,
Star, and
Y. In 1995, he changed his name to
Ea, the Babylonian name for the Sumerian god
Enki, and in 1999 changed it to
Ea Ea. He lived on
Peaks Island in
Portland, Maine.