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Albert Tucker was born in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, and earned his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1928 and his M.A. at the same institution in 1929. [3] In 1932, he earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University under the supervision of Solomon Lefschetz, with a dissertation entitled An Abstract Approach to Manifolds. [4]
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Jan 25, 1995 · Albert William Tucker. Successor. Carl Allendoerfer. R.H. Bing. Born: November 28, 1905, Ontario, Canada. Died: January 25, 1995, Hightstown, New Jersey. 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.
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Jan 25, 1995 · Biography. Albert Tucker was known as Al to his friends, colleagues and students. He was born in Oshawa, a small town on the northern shore of Lake Ontario and the family lived in various small towns on the northern shore as he grew up, never spending more than three years in any one place. His father, William B Tucker, had some mathematical ...
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. Professor Tucker was chairman of the ...
Brief Biography. 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. He remained there another year as a teaching fellow and Masters student.
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.
Jan 1, 2011 · Albert William Tucker was born November 28, 1905 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Al (as everyone called him) was the son of a Methodist minister who had studied to be a high-school mathematics teacher and had taught for a few years. Al first showed his talent for mathematics while in high school.
