David Gale (economist)
David Gale (born December 13, 1921 in New York City , † March 7, 2008 in Berkeley ) was an American mathematician and economist . He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley .
Career
Gale studied at Swarthmore College (Bachelor in 1943), was at the MIT Radiation Laboratory during the Second World War and then studied at the University of Michigan (Masters degree in 1947) and at Princeton University , where he received his PhD in 1949 under Albert William Tucker ( Solutions of finite two person games ). He then taught at Brown University between 1950 and 1965 before moving to Berkeley, where he was Professor of Mathematics, Operations Research and Economics. 1957/58 he was with the Rand Corporation .
Gale made decisive contributions to linear optimization , in particular his work The Theory of Linear Economic Models , published in 1960, established itself as a standard work. He also dealt with game theory, geometry of convex sets, and combinatorics.
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences . He has been awarded prizes such as the John von Neumann Theory Prize and the Pirelli International Award for his research results . He was a Fulbright Research Scholar (1953/54 in Denmark) and Guggenheim Fellow (1962/63 at Osaka University as visiting professor). In 1968/69 he was a Senior Fellow of the National Science Foundation at the University of Copenhagen.
Gale lived in Berkeley and Paris with his partner Sandra Gilbert. He had three daughters from his first marriage (with Julie B. Skeby, marriage 1954, divorce 1974) and two grandchildren.
From 1991 to 1997 he edited the column on mathematical entertainment in the Mathematical Intelligencer .
Web links
- Biography at McTutor
- Winner of the Neumann Theory Prize
- In memoriam. Publications of David Gale , Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 66, 2009, pp. 657-659, doi: 10.1016 / j.geb.2009.04.012
- Joel Sobel: ReGale: Some memorable results , Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 66, 2009, pp. 632–642, doi: 10.1016 / j.geb.2009.04.020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ The game of Hex and Brouwers Fixed Point Theorem , American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 86, 1979, p. 818 won the Lester Randolph Ford Award in 1980
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gale, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician and economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 2008 |
| Place of death | Berkeley |