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David Gale, the Glossary

David Gale (December 13, 1921 – March 7, 2008) was an American mathematician and economist.^[1]

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Combinatorial game theorists
General equilibrium theorists

Albert W. Tucker

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. David Gale and Albert W. Tucker are John von Neumann Theory Prize winners.

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Algebraic geometry

Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometrical problems.

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Alvin E. Roth

Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American academic. David Gale and Alvin E. Roth are 20th-century American economists, American game theorists and fellows of the Econometric Society.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Chomp

Chomp is a two-player strategy game played on a rectangular grid made up of smaller square cells, which can be thought of as the blocks of a chocolate bar.

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Coding theory

Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications.

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Convex analysis

Convex analysis is the branch of mathematics devoted to the study of properties of convex functions and convex sets, often with applications in convex minimization, a subdomain of optimization theory.

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Cyclic polytope

In mathematics, a cyclic polytope, denoted C(n, d), is a convex polytope formed as a convex hull of n distinct points on a rational normal curve in Rd, where n is greater than d. These polytopes were studied by Constantin Carathéodory, David Gale, Theodore Motzkin, Victor Klee, and others.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Economics

Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Economist

An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics.

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Fellow

A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Gale diagram

In the mathematical discipline of polyhedral combinatorics, the Gale transform turns the vertices of any convex polytope into a set of vectors or points in a space of a different dimension, the Gale diagram of the polytope.

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Gale–Shapley algorithm

In mathematics, economics, and computer science, the Gale–Shapley algorithm (also known as the deferred acceptance algorithm, propose-and-reject algorithm, or Boston Pool algorithm) is an algorithm for finding a solution to the stable matching problem.

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Game theory

Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions.

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General equilibrium theory

In economics, general equilibrium theory attempts to explain the behavior of supply, demand, and prices in a whole economy with several or many interacting markets, by seeking to prove that the interaction of demand and supply will result in an overall general equilibrium.

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Golden Goose Award

The Golden Goose Award is a United States award in recognition of scientists whose federally funded basic research has led to innovations or inventions with significant impact on humanity or society.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim.

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Hal Varian

Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947, in Wooster, Ohio) is Chief Economist at Google and holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. David Gale and Hal Varian are 20th-century American economists and fellows of the Econometric Society.

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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics.

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Involution (mathematics)

In mathematics, an involution, involutory function, or self-inverse function is a function that is its own inverse, for all in the domain of.

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John von Neumann Theory Prize

The John von Neumann Theory Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is awarded annually to an individual (or sometimes a group) who has made fundamental and sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences. David Gale and John von Neumann Theory Prize are John von Neumann Theory Prize winners.

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Linear programming

Linear programming (LP), also called linear optimization, is a method to achieve the best outcome (such as maximum profit or lowest cost) in a mathematical model whose requirements and objective are represented by linear relationships.

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Lloyd Shapley

Lloyd Stowell Shapley (June 2, 1923 – March 12, 2016) was an American mathematician and Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist. David Gale and Lloyd Shapley are 20th-century American economists, American game theorists, fellows of the Econometric Society, fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and John von Neumann Theory Prize winners.

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Mathematical economics

Mathematical economics is the application of mathematical methods to represent theories and analyze problems in economics.

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Mathematical logic

Mathematical logic is the study of formal logic within mathematics.

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Mathematical optimization

Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled optimisation) or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criteria, from some set of available alternatives.

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Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Perfect information

In economics, perfect information (sometimes referred to as "no hidden information") is a feature of perfect competition.

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Pirelli Internetional Award

The Pirelli Internetional Award was an international multimedia competition for the communication of science & technology conducted entirely on the internet, which was awarded from 1997 to 2007.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Projective space

In mathematics, the concept of a projective space originated from the visual effect of perspective, where parallel lines seem to meet at infinity.

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Ramsey problem

The Ramsey problem, or Ramsey pricing, or Ramsey–Boiteux pricing, is a second-best policy problem concerning what prices a public monopoly should charge for the various products it sells in order to maximize social welfare (the sum of producer and consumer surplus) while earning enough revenue to cover its fixed costs.

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RAND Corporation

The RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm.

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Sandra Gilbert

Sandra M. Gilbert (born December 27, 1936) is an American literary critic and poet who has published in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism.

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Shannon switching game

The Shannon switching game is a connection game for two players, invented by American mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon, the "father of information theory", some time before 1951.

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Stable marriage problem

In mathematics, economics, and computer science, the stable marriage problem (also stable matching problem) is the problem of finding a stable matching between two equally sized sets of elements given an ordering of preferences for each element.

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Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

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The Mathematical Intelligencer

The Mathematical Intelligencer is a mathematical journal published by Springer Science+Business Media that aims at a conversational and scholarly tone, rather than the technical and specialist tone more common among academic journals.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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William A. Brock

William Allen "Buz" Brock (born October 23, 1941) is a mathematical economist and a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 1975. David Gale and William A. Brock are 20th-century American economists and fellows of the Econometric Society.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gale

Also known as Gale, David.

, William A. Brock.

David Gale, the Glossary

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See also

Combinatorial game theorists

General equilibrium theorists

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