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  1. Albert William Tucker (28 November 1905 – 25 January 1995) was a Canadian mathematician who made important contributions in topology, game theory, and non-linear programming.

  2. Jan 25, 1995 · Albert Tucker was a Canadian mathematician who worked in topology, game theory and non-linear programming. He gave the name and interpretation to the "prisoner's dilemma" in game theory. View three larger pictures.

  3. Jan 25, 1995 · Albert William Tucker was a Canadian-American mathematician and operations researcher. Born in Oshawa, Ontario, he showed early signs of mathematical genius. He earned a bachelors degree in mathematics in 1928 at the University of Toronto.

  4. Jan 27, 1995 · Albert William Tucker, a leading mathematician whose ideas and teaching influenced economics and business in the postwar era, died on Wednesday. He was 89.

  5. Albert W. Tucker later formalized the game by structuring the rewards in terms of prison sentences and named it the "prisoner's dilemma". [2] The prisoner's dilemma models many real-world situations involving strategic behavior.

  6. Tucker, a professor of mathematics at Princeton University from the 1930s until the 1970s, describes mathematics in Princeton in the late 1930s and during the years of the second world war.

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  8. Jan 1, 2011 · Learn about the life and achievements of Albert W. Tucker, a mathematician, teacher, and expositor who made significant contributions to operations research. He was awarded the John von Neumann Prize and inducted into the International Federation of Operations Research Societies' Hall of Fame.

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