Steven Brams
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Steven J. Brams (born November 28, 1940) is a political scientist and professor at New York University. Brams is best known for his research on voting systems and fair division. He is one of the independent discoverers of approval voting. Also, he was a co-discoverer, with Alan Taylor of the first envy-free solution to the n-person cake cutting problem.(1) Previous to the Brams-Taylor solution, the cake cutting problem had been one of the most important open problems in contemporary mathematics.(2) In 2006 with others he devised an optimal alternative to the ancient procedure of divide and choose.(3)
Brams was born in Concord, New Hampshire. He earned his B.S. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Politics, Economics, and Science in 1962. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in Political Science in 1966.
He worked briefly in U.S. federal government positions before taking an Associate Professor position at Syracuse University in 1967. He moved to New York University in 1969, where he is a Professor in the Department of Politics.
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- Will Hively. Dividing the spoils - Steven Brams, Alan Taylor devise procedure to divide anything equitably. Discover Magazine. March 1995.
- Sol Garfunkel. More Equal than Others: Weighted Voting. For All Practical Purposes. COMAP. 1988.
- Better Ways to Cut a Cake by Steven J. Brams, Michael A. Jones, and Christian Klamler in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society December 2006.
