Steven Brams

Steven J. Brams ( born November 28, 1940 in Concord (New Hampshire) ) is an American political scientist who deals with game theory, theory of options such as social choice theory and theory of fair sharing.

Brams studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Bachelor 's degree in 1962 and in 1966 received his doctorate at Northwestern University in political science. 1965 to 1967 he was at the Institute for Defense Analyses, 1967 Assistant Professor at Syracuse University and in 1969 at New York University, where he became Associate Professor in 1973 and Professor in 1976.

He is one of the founders of election by consent ( with Peter C. Fishburn 1977) and Alan D. Taylor inventor of the divorce formula (Adjusted Winner Procedure), which he left patent and its patent is marketed by a Boston law firm. With Taylor in 1995 he designed a solution to the cake division problem for any number of participants ( fair division ) ..

He turned the game theory in a variety of areas like international politics and the Bible.

He was a visiting professor at the University of Rochester, the University of Michigan, the University of California, Irvine, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.

1986/87 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Writings

  • Game Theory and Politics, New York:. Free Press, 1975, 2nd edition Dover 2004
  • Paradoxes in Politics: An Introduction to the Nonobvious in Political Science. New York: Free Press, 1976.
  • The Presidential Election Game, Yale University Press, 1978, 2nd Edition AK Peters 2008
  • Editor with A. Gravel, G. Schwödiauer, Applied Game Theory: Proceedings of a Conference, Vienna, 1978, Würzburg, Germany: Physica -Verlag, 1979.
  • Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible, MIT Press, 1980, 2nd edition 2003
  • Publisher William F. Lucas, Philip D. Straffin, Jr.: Modules in Applied Mathematics: Political and Related Models, Volume 2 New York: Springer -Verlag, 1983.
  • Miit Peter C. Fishburn: Approval Voting, Birkhauser Boston, 1983, Springer Verlag 2007
  • Superior Beings: If They Exist, How Would We Know? Game - Theoretic Implications of Omniscience, Omnipotence, Immortality, and Incomprehensibility. Springer - Verlag, 1983, 2nd edition 2007
  • Superpower Games: Applying Game Theory to Superpower Conflict, Yale University Press, 1985.
  • Rational Politics: Decisions, Games, and Strategy. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1985, Academic Press, 1989.
  • With D. Marc Kilgour, Game Theory and National Security. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
  • Negotiation Games: Applying Game Theory to Bargaining and Arbitration. New York: Routledge, 1990, 2nd edition 2003
  • Theory of Moves, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • With Alan D. Taylor: ' Fair Division: From Cake -Cutting to Dispute Resolution, Cambridge University Press 1996.
  • With Alan D. Taylor: The Win -Win Solution: Guaranteeing Fair Shares to Everybody, WW Norton, 1999
  • Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair - Division Procedures, Princeton University Press, 2008.
  • Publisher William V. Gehrlein, Fred S. Roberts: The Mathematics of Preference, Choice, and Order: Essays in Honor of Peter C. Fishburn, Springer, 2009..
  • Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds, MIT Press, 2011.
  • Michael A. Jones, Christian Klamler: Better Ways to Cut a Cake, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 53, December 2006, Online
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