Alain A. Lewis

Alain A. Lewis (born 1947) is an American mathematician. A student of the mathematical economist Kenneth Arrow, Lewis is credited by the historian of economics Philip Mirowski with making Arrow aware of computational limits to economic agency.

Life Lewis gained his BA in philosophy, economics and statistics from George Washington University in 1969, and a PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1979. He was based at Lawrence Livermore Labs from 1978 to 1979, RAND from 1979 to 1982, the University of Singapore from 1981 to 1983, Cornell University from 1983 to 1987 and University of California, Irvine from 1987. (with Rangarajan Sundaram) 'An alternate approach to axiomatizations of the von Neumann/Morgenstern characteristic function, Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1988), pp. 145–56 'Lower bounds on degrees of game-theoretic structures', Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 1 (1988), pp. 1–39 'An infinite version of arrow's theorem in the effective setting', Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 1 (1988), pp. 41–48 'On the independence of core-equivalence results from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory', Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 19. No. 1 (1990), pp. 55–95 'A note on degrees of presentation of games as relational structures', Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 19. No. 2 (1990), pp. 195–201 'A game-theoretic equivalence to the Hahn–Banach theorem', Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 20, No. 3 (1990), pp. 199–214 'On the Effective Content of Asymptotic Verifications of Edgeworth's Conjecture', 1991 (with Y. Inagaki) 'On the Effective Content of Theories', preprint, University of California at Irvine, School of Social Sciences, 1991. 'On Turing degrees of Walrasian models and a general impossibility result in the theory of decision-making', Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 24, No. 2-3 (1992), pp. 141–171 'Some aspects of effectively constructive mathematics that are relevant to the foundations of neoclassical mathematical economics and theory of games', Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 24, No. 2-3 (1992), pp. 209–235