Alan D. Taylor

Alan Dana Taylor is a mathematician who, with Steven Brams, solved the problem of envy-free Fair division for an arbitrary number of people.

Taylor received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Dartmouth College.^[1]

He currently is the Marie Louise Bailey professor of mathematics at Union College, in Schenectady, NY.

[edit] Selected publications

• Alan D. Taylor (1995) Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power, and Proof Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-94391-9 and 0-387-94500-8
• Steven J. Brams and Alan D. Taylor (1995).An Envy-Free Cake Division Protocol American Mathematical Monthly, 102, pp.9-19. (JUSTOR
• Steven J. Brams and Alan D. Taylor (1996). Fair Division - From cake-cutting to dispute resolution Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-55390-3 and ISBN 0-521-55644-9

[edit] References

1. ^ Alan D. Taylor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

http://www.math.union.edu/people/faculty/taylora.html

[edit] External links

• Alan Taylor - Union College

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