Alan Dana Taylor (born October 27, 1947) is an American mathematician who, with Steven Brams, solved the problem of envy-free cake-cutting for an arbitrary number of people with the Brams–Taylor procedure.
Alan D. Taylor | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 27, 1947[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
| Known for | Brams–Taylor procedure |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Union College |
| Doctoral advisor | James Earl Baumgartner |
Taylor received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Dartmouth College.[2]
He was the Marie Louise Bailey professor of mathematics at Union College, in Schenectady, New York.
He retired from the college in 2022.
Selected publications edit
- Alan D. Taylor (1995) Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power, and Proof Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-94391-9 and 0-387-94500-8;[3] with Allison Pacelli: Taylor, Alan D.; Pacelli, Allison M. (2008). 2nd edition. ISBN 9780387776439.
- Steven J. Brams and Alan D. Taylor (1995). An Envy-Free Cake Division Protocol American Mathematical Monthly, 102, pp. 9–18. (JSTOR)
- Steven J. Brams and Alan D. Taylor (1996). Fair Division - From cake-cutting to dispute resolution Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-55390-3 and ISBN 0-521-55644-9
Notes edit
- ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
- ^ Alan D. Taylor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Merrill III, Samuel (January 1997). "Review: Mathematics and Politics by Alan D. Taylor, 1995". The American Mathematical Monthly. 104 (1): 82–85. doi:10.2307/2974842. JSTOR 2974842.
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