Lloyd s shapley biography

Life.
Lloyd Stowell Shapley was an American mathematician and Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist.
This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/ Nobel Lectures/The Nobel Prizes.

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Lloyd S. Shapley

Biography

Lloyd Shapley, a UCLA emeritus professor of economics and mathematics and co-winner of the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, died on March 12. He was 92 years old.

Shapley was widely considered one of the fathers of game theory. His research focused on both cooperative and non-cooperative game theory, in fields including stochastic games, strategic market games, assignment games, cooperative and non-cooperative market models, voting games and power indices, potential games, cost allocation and organization theory. His work included the development of the “Shapley value” and the “core.”

“Professor Shapley was one of the giants of game theory,” said UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. “His work in market design laid the foundation for advances in the matching of kidney donors with transplant recipients, in college admissions procedures, and in assignment of children to public schools. The entire UCLA community joins Professor Shapley’s family in mourning his passing.”

In their 1962 paper, “College admissions and the stability of marriage,” Shapl

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Lloyd Shapley - Nobelist

Notes:

1/ The subject of this article was named after his uncle, Lloyd Stowell Shapley (1875-1939). The elder Lloyd was son of Col. Calvin Harlow Shapley and Kate Stowell. He was a Naval captain and later governor of Guam. Wikipedia lists this man by his full name. Wiki lists his distinguished nephew as Lloyd Shapley. See box “More than you want to know about Shapleys & Stowells” in earlier post “Harlow Shapley - Unlikely Liberal.”

2/ Lloyd S Shapley, Oral History with Martin Collins, UCLA, 1994.

3/ Nasar, Sylvia A Beautiful Mind, Has one of many accounts of Project RAND.. It was set up in 1945 under the Douglas Aircraft Corp. In November 1948 it became a separate entity, RAND Corporation. Lloyd’s quotes in this passage are from L. S. Shapley Oral History. TK

4/ L. S. Shapley Oral History pp. TK Nasar pp.TK

5/ Roth summarized Lloyd’s contributions as a teaching module for Lindau-Nobel Institute in 2016. https://www.lindau-nobel.org/lloyd-shapley-a-founding-giant-of-game-theory/ See story insert “Game theory math spreads out in man

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Major Works of Lloyd S. Shapley

"A Simple Three-Person Poker Game", with J.F. Nash, 1950, Annals of Mathematical Studies.
"Basic Solutions of Discrete Games", with R.N. Snow, Annals of Mathematical Studies.
"Quota Solution of N-Person Games", 1953, Annals of Mathematical Studies.
"Stochastic Games", 1953, Proceedings of the NAS.
"Positional Games", 1953, Proceedings of Fourth Annual Logistics Conference.
"A Value for N-Person Games", 1953, in Kuhn and Tucker, editors, Contributions to the Theory of Games.
"Games with Partial Information", with H.E.Scarf, 1957, in Annals of Mathematical Studies.
"On Games of Survival", with J.W. Milnor, 1957, in Drescher, editor, Contributions to the Theory of Games, III
"Equilibrium Points in Games with Vector Payoffs", 1959, NRLQ.
"The Solutions of a Symmetric Market Game", 1959, in Luce and Tucker, editors, Contributions to the Theory of Games.
"Simple Games: An outline of the descriptive theory&quo