The Fairest Cut of All. Review ofFair Division: From Cake–Cutting to Dispute Resolution,by Steven J. Brams and Allan D. Taylor
✍ Scribed by Peter Fishburn
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 291 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-2496
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
where he has taught since 1969. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in 1966 and has had visiting positions at Yale, the University of Haifa, and the University of California at Irvine, among others. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a past president of the Peace Science Society International. He has served on the editorial boards of ten professional journals and has authored or coauthored nearly 200 papers and 12 books. His most recent book prior to Fair Division is Theory of Moves, Cambridge University Press, 1994. An earlier book, Approval Voting (1983), was co-authored with the reviewer.
Alan Taylor is the Marie Louise Bailey Professor of Mathematics at Union College, where he has taught since receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1975. He has chaired the department of mathematics and the science division at Union. His research interests in logic, set theory, and combinatorics have recently expanded to include social choice theory, game theory, and fair division. His other publications included Mathematics and Politics, Springer-Verlag, 1995, which is a text for students in the humanities and social sciences, and, with William Zwicker, the research monograph Simple Games: Desirability Relations, Trading, and Pseudoweightings.