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American mathematician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Alan D. Taylor | |
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Born | [1] | October 27, 1947
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
Known for | Brams–Taylor procedure |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Union College |
Doctoral advisor | James Earl Baumgartner |
Taylor received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Dartmouth College.[2]
He was the Marie Louise Bailey professor of mathematics at Union College, in Schenectady, New York.
He retired from the college in 2022.
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