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Albert W. Tucker

Albert W. Tucker
Born
Albert William Tucker

(1905-11-28)28 November 1905
Died25 January 1995(1995-01-25) (aged 89)
NationalityCanadian
American
Alma materUniversity of Toronto (BA, MA)
Princeton University (PhD)
Known forTucker's lemma
Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions
Prisoner's dilemma
Combinatorial linear algebra
AwardsJohn von Neumann Theory Prize (1980)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician:
Combinatorial topology
Optimization
InstitutionsPrinceton University
ThesisAn Abstract Approach to Manifolds (1932[1])
Doctoral advisorSolomon Lefschetz[1]
Doctoral studentsDavid Gale
John R. Isbell
Marvin Minsky
John Forbes Nash
Torrence Parsons
Lloyd Shapley

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]

  1. ^ a b Albert W. Tucker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Cervone, Barbara Tucker; Duren, Bill; Kohn, J. J.; Snell, J. Laurie; Stein, Marjorie L. (1995), "A. W. Tucker: some reminiscences", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 42 (10): 1143–1147, MR 1350012

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