Lloyd S. Shapley

Lloyd Stowell Shapley 2012

Lloyd Stowell Shapley (born June 2, 1923 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , † March 12, 2016 in Tucson , Arizona ) was an American economist and mathematician . He was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles . His area of ​​publication was mathematical economics, especially game theory . 2012 he was together with Alvin E. Roth of the Prize in Economic Sciences of the Swedish Riksbank in Memory of Alfred Nobel awarded.

Life

The son of the astronomer Harlow Shapley received his Ph.D. 1954 at Princeton University . The economist worked from 1948, with one interruption (1950 to 1953), until 1981 for the Rand Corporation . Since 1981 he has held a professorship at the University of California in Los Angeles . The Shapley value and the Shapley-Shubik index are among the most important contributions made by the scientist . Shapley, who was awarded the Bronze Star (1944) in World War II for deciphering Soviet radio signals , received the John von Neumann Theory Prize for his research achievements in 1981 . In 1979 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences . He was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 1974 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In game theory , he introduced stochastic games in 1953 as a generalization of Markov decision processes.

Fonts (selection)

• A Value for n-person Games , with HW Kuhn and AW Tucker, in: Contributions to the Theory of Games. Volume II, 1953, doi : 10.1515 / 9781400881970-018
• Stochastic Games , in: Proceedings of National Academy of Science, Volume 39, pp. 1095-1100, 1953, online
• A Method for Evaluating the Distribution of Power in a Committee System , with Martin Shubik , in: American Political Science Review, Volume 48, pp. 787-792, 1954
• On Market Games , with Martin Shubik, in: Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 1, pp. 9-25, 1969
• Cores of Convex Games , in: International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 1, pp. 11-26, 1971, doi : 10.1007 / BF01753431
• Values ​​of Non-Atomic Games , with Robert Aumann , Princeton University Press, 1974
• Mathematical Properties of the Banzhaf Power Index , with Pradeep Dubey , in: Mathematics of Operations Research, Volume 4, pp. 99-132, 1979
• On Authority Distributions in Organizations , with X. Hu, in: Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 45, pp. 132-170, 2003

literature

• Lloyd S. Shapley , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 49/2012 from December 4, 2012, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Alvin E. Roth : Lloyd Shapley (1923-2016). In: Nature . Volume 532, No. 7598, 2016, p. 178, doi: 10.1038 / 532178a

Web links

Commons : Lloyd Shapley  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lloyd S. Shapley, 92, Nobel Laureate and a Father of Game Theory, Is Dead
2. ^ The Shapley Value: Essays in honor of Lloyd S. Shapley , AE Roth, ed., Cambridge University Press, 1988 ( Memento of October 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 249 kB)
3. ↑ Livestream via nobelprize.org (accessed October 15, 2012).
4. ↑ Lloyd Stowell Shapley in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
5. ↑ War and Peace, Robert A. Aumann p. 357 ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Lloyd S. Shapley: A Value for n-person Games. In: HW Kuhn and AW Tucker (eds.): Contributions to the Theory of Games, volume II. (Annals of Mathematics Studies v. 28), Princeton University Press, Princeton 1953. Pages 307-317, ISBN 0-691-07935 -8th
7. ↑ Hu, X., An asymmetric Shaplay-Shubik power index , in International Journal of Game Theory, 34, pp. 229-240, 2006.
8. ^ Statement, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences ( Memento of September 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved October 31, 2008)
9. ^ Member Directory: Lloyd S. Shapley. National Academy of Sciences, accessed December 10, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed December 10, 2017 . 
11. ^ Shapley Stochastic Games , Proc. National Academy Sciences, Vol. 39, 1953, pp. 1095-1100