Tucker
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Tucker is a surname most notably associated with Albert W. Tucker, a Canadian-American mathematician and game theorist known for his contributions to topology and the formalization of the prisoner's dilemma.
Aliases (1)
- Albert W. Tucker ×32
Statements (48)
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| instanceOf |
family name
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human → surname → |
| awardReceived |
Leroy P. Steele Prize
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| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United States of America → |
| dateOfBirth |
1905-11-28
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| dateOfDeath |
1995-01-25
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| doctoralStudent |
David Gale
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Harold W. Kuhn → John Nash → |
| educatedAt |
Princeton University
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University of Toronto → |
| employer |
Princeton University
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| fieldOfWork |
game theory
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nonlinear programming → topology → |
| fullName |
Albert William Tucker
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| hasEtymology |
derived from an occupational name for a cloth fuller or cloth thickener
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from Middle English "toukere" meaning cloth fuller → from Old English "tucian" meaning to torment or to beat → in some cases from German "Tucher" meaning cloth-maker → in some cases from Irish "Ó Tuachair" or "Ó Tuirc" → |
| hasGivenName |
Albert
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| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
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German → Irish → |
| hasMiddleInitial |
W
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| hasNotableBearer |
Albert W. Tucker
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| hasSurname |
Tucker
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| hasVariant |
Toker
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Tucker (anglicized form of Tucher) → Tukker → |
| influenced |
development of modern game theory
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| knownFor |
Tucker decomposition in multilinear algebra
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Tucker's lemma → |
| memberOf |
American Mathematical Society
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National Academy of Sciences (United States) → |
| notableFor |
contributions to topology
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formalization and popularization of the prisoner's dilemma → work in game theory → |
| occupation |
mathematician
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university teacher → |
| placeOfBirth |
Ontario, Canada
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| placeOfDeath |
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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| positionHeld |
chair of the mathematics department at Princeton University
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| usedAs |
given name in the United States
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surname in English-speaking countries → |
Referenced by (4)
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Albert W. Tucker
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Jonathan Tucker → Tom Tucker → |
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Albert W. Tucker
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