Albert W. Tucker

Mathematician, Academic

1905 – 1995

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Who was Albert W. Tucker?

Albert William Tucker was a Canadian mathematician who made important contributions in topology, game theory, and non-linear programming.

Albert Tucker was born in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, and earned his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1928 and his M.A. at the same institution in 1929. In 1932, he completed his Ph.D. at the Princeton University under the supervision of Solomon Lefschetz, with a thesis entitled An Abstract Approach to Manifolds.

In 1932–33 he was a National Research Fellow at Cambridge, Harvard, and the University of Chicago. He then returned to Princeton to join the faculty in 1933, where he stayed till 1974. He chaired the mathematics department for about twenty years, one of the longest tenures. His extensive relationships within the field made him a great source for oral histories of the mathematics community.

His Ph.D. students include Michel Balinski, David Gale, Alan Goldman, John Isbell, Stephen Maurer, Marvin Minsky, Nobel Prize winner John Nash, Torrence Parsons, Nobel Prize winner Lloyd Shapley, Robert Singleton, and Marjorie Stein. Although he wasn't his dissertation advisor, Tucker did advise and collaborated with Harold W. Kuhn on a number of papers and models.

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Born
Nov 28, 1905
Oshawa
Also known as
  • Albert Tucker
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Canada
Profession
Education
  • Princeton University
  • University of Toronto
Employment
  • Princeton University
Lived in
  • United States of America
Died
Jan 25, 1995
Hightstown

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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