Oral history interview with Albert W. Tucker, 1977 Mar.

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Oral history interview with Albert W. Tucker, 1977 Mar.

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Tucker tells of becoming interested in the history of topology, partly as a result of contact with Eric Temple Bell. Tucker describes his wartime work; he was associate director for the Fire Control Research Project, and he was in charge of the mathematics portion of the Army Specialized Training Program at Princeton. He tells how he came to work in the fields of linear programming and game theory. He tells of his work editing the Annals of mathematical Studies, and how he became editor of the Princeton Mathematical Series. Tucker describes his research activities (nonlinear programming as well as game theory and linear programming) in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Transcript : 15 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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