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 forPrisoner's dilemma
Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions
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