Dr. Steven J. Brams

Biography

Steven J. Brams is a game theorist and political scientist at the New York University Department of Politics.  Dr. Brams is best known for his work on applying game theory to voting systems and to systems involving fair division.  He is one of the independent discoverers of approval voting and was a co-discoverer, with Alan Taylor, of the first envy-free solution to the n-person cake-cutting problem, which had previously been one of the most important open problems in contemporary mathematics.  With Taylor, he is a co-inventor of the "Adjusted Winner" system, a patented fair-division procedure.  He is the author or co-author of fifteen books, the most recent being Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures (2008), and Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds (2011).

Dr. Brams earned his B.S. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Politics, Economics, and Science in 1962.  In 1996, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University.

Dr. Brams worked briefly in U.S. federal government positions before taking an Assistant 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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