Edward Kofler

Edward Kofler (born November 16, 1911 in Brzezany , Galicia , Austria-Hungary (today Ukraine ), † April 22, 2007 in Zurich ) was a Polish-Swiss mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory and fuzzy logic by working out the theory of linear partial information (LPI).

Life

Kofler completed his mathematics studies as a student of Hugo Steinhaus and Stefan Banach from the University of Lwów (Lemberg) in Poland (now Ukraine) in 1936. He then studied pedagogy at the University of Krakow. After completing his studies in 1939, Kofler attended a Polish school in Kolomyja ( Kolomea , now in Ukraine) as a mathematics teacher . After the German attack on the city on July 1, 1941, he and his wife managed to escape to Kazakhstan . There he ran a Polish school with an orphanage for children in exile in Alma-Ata and worked there as a math teacher. After the Second World War he returned to Poland with the orphanage children. He was accompanied by his wife and young son. From 1959 he was a lecturer at the University of Warsaw in the Faculty of Economics . In 1962 he received his doctorate on economic decisions and game theory . Then in 1962 he became an adjunct in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the same university, specializing in econometrics .

In 1969 he moved to Zurich , where he worked at the Institute for Empirical Economic Research at the University of Zurich and as a scientific advisor to the Swiss National Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research. In 1970 in Zurich he developed his theory - linear partial information (LPI) - which enables qualified decisions to be made on the basis of incomplete information ( fuzzy logic ).

Kofler was visiting professor at the University of Saint Petersburg , Heidelberg , McMaster University ( Hamilton (Ontario) ) and the University of Leeds . He worked with many well-known specialists in information theory , such as Oskar R. Lange in Poland, Nicolai Vorobiev in the Soviet Union , Günter Menges in Germany, and Heidi Schelbert and Peter Zweifel in Zurich. He was the author of numerous books and articles.

Fonts

• “Set theoretical considerations on the game of chess and an introduction to the theory of the corresponding fields” - Mathematical Seminar of the University of Lviv , Poland, 1936
• From the history of mathematics - book, 339 pages, Warsaw 1962 and Budapest 1965
• From the number to the infinite - book, 312 pages, Warsaw 1960
• Economic decisions and game theory . Dissertation University of Warsaw 1961
• Introduction to game theory - book, 230 pages, Warsaw 1962
• On optimizing many goals , Przeglad Statystyczny, Warsaw 1965
• On the value of information habilitation thesis - book, 104 pages, Warsaw 1967
• With H. Greniewski and N. Vorobiev: The Strategy of Games , book, 80 pages, Warsaw 1968
• With Günter Menges : Decisions when information is incomplete , Springer-Verlag , 1976
• With G. Menges: “Decisions in the case of incomplete information”, volume 136 of Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems . Springer, Berlin, 1976.
• “Forecasts and Stability in the Event of Incomplete Information”, Campus 1989
• With P. Zweifel: "Linear Partial Information in One-Shot Decisions", Selecta Statistica Vol. IX, 1996
• Multiple objectives in economic decisions with fuzzy data , Institute for Empirical Economic Research, 9602, 1996
• With Thomas Kofler: "Forecasting Analysis of the Economic Growth", Selecta Statistica Canadiana , 1998
• "Linear Partial Information with Applications in Fuzzy Sets and Systems", 1998. North-Holland
• With Thomas Kofler: Fuzzy Logic and Economic Decisions , 1998
• With L. Götte: "Fuzzy Systems and their Game Theoretical Solution", International Conference on Operations Research , ETH, Zurich, August 1998

Web links

• Literature by and about Edward Kofler in the WorldCat bibliographic database