Edward Kofler

Edward Kofler ( born November 16, 1911 in Brzezany, Russia ( now Ukraine), † 22 April, 2007 Zurich ) was a Polish- Swiss mathematician who made ​​significant contributions to game theory and fuzzy logic through the development of the theory of linear partial information delivered (LPI).

Life

Kofler finished his studies in mathematics as a student of Hugo Steinhaus and Stefan Banach from the University of Lwów (Lviv ) in Poland ( now Ukraine) from 1936. Then he studied pedagogy at the University of Krakow. After graduating in 1939 Kofler visited as a mathematics teacher in a Polish school Kolomyja ( Kolomea, today in Ukraine ). After the German attack on the city on July 1, 1941 he and his wife managed to escape to Kazakhstan. There he directed in Alma- Ata a Polish school orphanage for children in exile, where he worked as a mathematics teacher. After the Second World War, he returned to Poland with the orphanage children. He was accompanied by his wife and young son. From 1959 he was a lecturer at Warsaw University in the Faculty of Economics. In 1962 he did his PhD on economic decisions and the game theory. Then in 1962 he was an adjunct at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the same university, specialized in econometrics.

In 1969, he moved to Zurich, where he worked at the Institute for Empirical Economic Research, University of Zurich and worked as a scientific advisor to the Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research. In Zurich 1970, he developed his theory - linear partial information ( LPI), which allows qualified to make decisions on the basis of incomplete information ( fuzzy logic).

Kofler was a visiting professor at the University of Saint Petersburg, Heidelberg, McMaster University (Hamilton (Ontario) ) and the University of Leeds. He has worked with many well-known specialists in information theory, such as Oskar R. Lange in Poland, Nicolai Vorobiev in the Soviet Union, Günter Menges in Germany, and Heidi Schelbert and Peter Zweifel in Zurich. He was the author of numerous books and articles.

Writings

  • "Quantity Theoretical considerations about chess and introduction to the theory of the corresponding fields " - Mathematics Seminar of the University of Lvov, Poland, in 1936
  • From the History of Mathematics - Paper, 339 pages, Warsaw in 1962 and Budapest in 1965
  • From the number up to the Infinite - Book, 312 pages, Warsaw 1960
  • Economic decisions and the game theory. Dissertation University of Warsaw 1961
  • Introduction to Game Theory - Paper, 230 pages, Warsaw 1962
  • About optimization of many objectives, Przeglgd Statystyczny, Warsaw 1965
  • The value of the information Habilitationsschrift - book, 104 pages, Warsaw 1967
  • With Greniewski H. and N. Vorobiev: The strategy of the games, book, 80 pages, Warsaw 1968
  • With Günter Menges: decisions with incomplete information, Springer- Verlag, 1976
  • With G. Menges: " decisions with incomplete information ", volume 136 of Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Springer, Berlin, 1976.
  • " Forecasts and stability under incomplete information ," Campus 1989
  • With P. doubt: "Linear Partial Information in One -Shot Decisions", Selecta Statistica Vol IX, 1996
  • Multiple objective economic decisions in fuzzy data, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, 9602, 1996
  • With Thomas Kofler: " Forecasting Analysis of the Economic Growth ", Selecta Statistica Canadiana, 1998
  • "Linear Partial Information with Applications in Fuzzy Sets and Systems ", 1998. North -Holland
  • With Thomas Kofler: Fuzzy Logic and Economic Decisions, 1998
  • With L. Goette, " Fuzzy Systems and Their Game Theoretical Solution", International Conference on Operations Research, ETH, Zurich, August 1998
  • Mathematicians ( 20th century)
  • Swiss
  • Born in 1911
  • Died in 2007
  • Man
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