Back ألبرت وليم تاكر Arabic البرت وليم تاكر ARZ Albert W. Tucker Catalan Albert William Tucker German Albert W. Tucker Spanish آلبرت دابلیو. تاکر Persian Albert W. Tucker French Albert Tucker Italian アルバート・タッカー Japanese Albert William Tucker Dutch
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| Born | Albert William Tucker 28 November 1905 Oshawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 25 January 1995 (aged 89) Hightstown, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | Canadian American |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto (BA, MA) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Known for | Prisoner's dilemma Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions Combinatorial linear algebra |
| Awards | John von Neumann Theory Prize (1980) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematician: Combinatorial topology Optimization |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Thesis | An Abstract Approach to Manifolds (1932[1]) |
| Doctoral advisor | Solomon Lefschetz[1] |
| Doctoral students | David 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]
- ^ a b Albert W. Tucker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ 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