Albert W. Tucker
| Albert W. Tucker | |
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Albert William Tucker
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| Born |
28 November 1905 Oshawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 25 January 1995 (aged 89) Hightstown, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | Canadian American |
| Fields |
Mathematician: Combinatorial topology Optimization |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto, Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Solomon Lefschetz |
| Doctoral students |
David Gale John R. Isbell Marvin Minsky John Forbes Nash Torrence Parsons Lloyd Shapley |
| Known for |
Prisoner's dilemma Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions Combinatorial linear algebra |
| Influenced |
Harold W. Kuhn David Gale R. Tyrrell Rockafellar |
| Notable awards | John von Neumann Theory Prize (1980) |
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.
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. 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. 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 1974. He chaired the mathematics department for about twenty years, one of the longest tenures. His extensive relationships within the field made 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, Turing Award winner Marvin Minsky, Nobel Prize winner John Nash, Torrence Parsons, Nobel Prize winner Lloyd Shapley, Robert Singleton, and Marjorie Stein. Tucker advised and collaborated with Harold W. Kuhn on a number of papers and models.
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