About Alan D. Taylor
Born 1947. Alan D. Taylor is an American mathematician, political scientist and university teacher, known for Brams–Taylor procedure.
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 was the Marie Louise Bailey professor of mathematics at Union College, in Schenectady, New York. He retired from the college in 2022.
Selected publications Alan D. Taylor (1995) Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power, and Proof Springer-Verlag. and 0-387-94500-8; with Allison Pacelli: 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. and
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Alan D. Taylor was born on 27 October 1947 in Melrose.
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