William S. Zwicker
William Seymour Zwicker (born 1949) is an American mathematician and the William D. Williams Professor of Mathematics at Union College in Schenectady, New York.[1]
Zwicker did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1971, and did his graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a Ph.D. in 1976, under the supervision of Eugene M. Kleinberg. He has been on the Union College faculty since 1975, and was given his named chair in 2006.[1][2]
Zwicker has done research in set theory and social choice theory. He is credited with inventing the concept of a supergame and the related hypergame paradox.[3] With Alan D. Taylor, he is the author of Simple Games: Desirability Relations, Trading, Pseudoweightings (Princeton University Press, 1999).
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2012-03-12.
- ^ William Seymour Zwicker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Self-Reference". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University. Aug 31, 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
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