Alan D Taylor

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Nationality American Name Alan Taylor Known for Brams–Taylor procedure Fields Mathematics		Alma mater Dartmouth College Education Dartmouth College Institutions Union College Role Mathematician

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Doctoral advisor James Earl Baumgartner

Alan Dana Taylor (born October 27, 1947) is an American mathematician who, with Steven Brams, solved the problem of envy-free cake-cutting for an arbitrary number of people with the Brams–Taylor procedure.

Taylor received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Dartmouth College.

He currently is the Marie Louise Bailey professor of mathematics at Union College, in Schenectady, New York.

Selected publications

Alan D. Taylor (1995) Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power, and Proof Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-94391-9 and 0-387-94500-8; with Allison Pacelli: 2nd edition. 2008.

Steven J. Brams and Alan D. Taylor (1995). An Envy-Free Cake Division Protocol American Mathematical Monthly, 102, pp. 9–18. (JSTOR)

Steven J. Brams and Alan D. Taylor (1996). Fair Division - From cake-cutting to dispute resolution Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-55390-3 and ISBN 0-521-55644-9

References

Alan D. Taylor Wikipedia

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