Anatol Rapoport | |
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| Born | Anatol Borisovich Rapoport (Анатолій Борисович Рапопо́рт) 22 May 1911 Lozova, Russia (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 20 January 2007 (aged 95) Toronto, Canada |
| Education | Hochschule für Musik, Vienna, University of Chicago |
| Known for | Game theory |
| Awards | Lentz International Peace Research Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical psychology |
| Institutions | University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Toronto, Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna) |
| Thesis | Construction of Non-Abelian Fields with Prescribed Arithmetic |
| Doctoral advisors | Otto Schilling, Abraham Adrian Albert |
Anatol Borisovich Rapoport (Ukrainian: Анатолій Борисович Рапопо́рт; Russian: Анато́лий Бори́сович Рапопо́рт; May 22, 1911 – January 20, 2007) was an American mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, to mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.