Albert William Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician who made important contributions in topology, game theory, and non-linear programming. Albert Tucker was born in Ontario, Canada, and earned his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1928. In 1932, he completed his Ph.D. at the Princeton University under the supervision of Solomon Lefschetz, with the thesis An Abstract Approach to Manifolds.
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- Albert William Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician who made important contributions in topology, game theory, and non-linear programming. Albert Tucker was born in Ontario, Canada, and earned his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1928. In 1932, he completed his Ph.D. at the Princeton University under the supervision of Solomon Lefschetz, with the thesis An Abstract Approach to Manifolds. In 1932–33 he was a National Research Fellow at Cambridge, Harvard, and the University of Chicago. He then returned to Princeton to join the faculty in 1933, where he stayed till 1970. He chaired the mathematics department for about twenty years. Almost no one else was there for such a long time. Tucker also knew everyone and remembered everything making him a great source for oral histories of the mathematics community. His Ph.D. students include Michel Balinski, David Gale, Alan Goldman, John Isbell, Stephen Maurer, Marvin Minsky, Nobel Prize winner John Nash, Torrence Parsons, Lloyd Shapley, Robert Singleton, and Marjorie Stein. Although he wasn't his dissertation advisor, Tucker did advise and collaborated with Harold W. Kuhn on a number of papers and models. In 1950, Albert Tucker gave the name and interpretation "prisoner's dilemma" to Merrill M. Flood and Melvin Dresher's model of cooperation and conflict, resulting in the most well-known game theoretic paradox. He is also well known for the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions, a basic result in non-linear programming, which was published in conference proceedings, rather than in a journal. In the 1960s, he was heavily involved in mathematics education, as chair of the AP Calculus committee for the College Board (1960–1963), through work with the Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) of the MAA (he was president of the MAA in 1961–1962), and through many NSF summer workshops for high school and college teachers. In the early 1980s, Tucker recruited Princeton history professor Charles Gillispie to help him set up an oral history project to preserve stories about the Princeton mathematical community in the 1930s. With funding from the Sloan Foundation, this project later expanded its scope. Among those who shared their memories of such figures as Einstein, von Neumann, and Gödel were computer pioneer Herman Goldstine and Nobel laureates John Bardeen and Eugene Wigner. Albert Tucker received an honorary degree from Dartmouth College. He died in Highstown, N.J. in 1995 at age 89.
- Albert William Tucker war ein in Kanada geborener US-amerikanischer Mathematiker, der wichtige Beiträge zu Topologie, Spieltheorie und Nichtlinearer Optimierung lieferte. Er studierte an der Universität of Toronto und Princeton University bei Solomon Lefschetz. Von 1932-1933 arbeitete er an der Harvard University und an der University of Chicago. Dann kehrte er zur Princeton University zurück und blieb dort bis 1970. Albert Tucker machte sich 1950 Gedanken zum Gefangenendilemma, eines der bekanntesten Paradoxa der Spieltheorie.
- Albert William Tucker était un mathématicien américain d'origine canadienne qui a produit d'importantes contributions en topologie, théorie des jeux et programmation non-linéaire.
- Albert W. Tucker matemático canadiano. Formado na Universidade de Toronto em 1929, Tucker desenvolveu a sua carreira nos Estados Unidos. Lançou as bases da programação linear e desenvolveu a teoria dos jogos, tendo sido ele o inventor do célebre dilema do prisioneiro (criado como auxílio pedagógico em aulas dadas a estudantes de psicologia, em Stanford). Tucker reformou-se em 1974 e morreu em 1995. Tucker foi o professor de John Forbes Nash, matemático americano, cuja história foi retratada no filme "Uma mente brilhante" de 2001 com Russel Crowe como John Nash.
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- Dod Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University
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- Albert William Tucker war ein in Kanada geborener US-amerikanischer Mathematiker, der wichtige Beiträge zu Topologie, Spieltheorie und Nichtlinearer Optimierung lieferte. Er studierte an der Universität of Toronto und Princeton University bei Solomon Lefschetz. Von 1932-1933 arbeitete er an der Harvard University und an der University of Chicago. Dann kehrte er zur Princeton University zurück und blieb dort bis 1970.
- Albert William Tucker était un mathématicien américain d'origine canadienne qui a produit d'importantes contributions en topologie, théorie des jeux et programmation non-linéaire.
- Albert W. Tucker matemático canadiano. Formado na Universidade de Toronto em 1929, Tucker desenvolveu a sua carreira nos Estados Unidos. Lançou as bases da programação linear e desenvolveu a teoria dos jogos, tendo sido ele o inventor do célebre dilema do prisioneiro (criado como auxílio pedagógico em aulas dadas a estudantes de psicologia, em Stanford). Tucker reformou-se em 1974 e morreu em 1995.
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