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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.
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.
Jan 25, 1995 · Albert William Tucker was a mathematics professor at Princeton University, a pioneer of linear programming and game theory, and a leader in the mathematical community.
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.
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.
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.
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Jan 1, 2011 · For over 50 years, especially during the embryonic years of OR, Albert W. Tucker was the pre-eminent example of the mathematician, teacher, and expositor that graced the field.
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.
Albert William Tucker PRINCETON, N.J., January 26, 1995 -- Albert William Tucker, aged 89, former chair of Princeton University's Mathematics Department and originator of the influential paradox known as the "Prisoner's Dilemma," died yesterday of complications from pneumonia at the Presbyterian Home of Meadow Lakes in Hightstown, N.J. The Albert
Topological notions such as homotopic and fixed point methods, first introduced by Tucker, now find among their many and wide applications the recent work of Kuhn for computing optima and equilibria; they are used by Gale in his studies of games of connectivity.
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