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Lloyd Shapley

1923 - 2016

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Lloyd Stowell Shapley (; June 2, 1923 – March 12, 2016) was an American mathematician and Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist. He contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lloyd Shapley has received more than 357,466 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Lloyd Shapley is the 281st most popular mathematician (down from 224th in 2019), the 2,221st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,760th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Mathematician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Lloyd Shapley ranks 281 out of 1,004. Before him are Paul Cohen, Lev Pontryagin, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Jacques Charles François Sturm, George Atwood, and Edward Waring. After him are Abraham bar Hiyya, John Edensor Littlewood, Kunihiko Kodaira, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Marino Ghetaldi, and Lorenzo Mascheroni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Lloyd Shapley ranks 99. Before him are Otfried Preußler, Masao Ono, Sergey Akhromeyev, Ernst Nolte, Yves Bonnefoy, and Dexter Gordon. After him are Albert King, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Belisario Betancur, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, and Cheikh Anta Diop. Among people deceased in 2016, Lloyd Shapley ranks 109. Before him are Henry Heimlich, Garry Marshall, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Ernst Nolte, Yves Bonnefoy, and Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. After him are Michu Meszaros, Glenn Frey, Oleg Popov, Michel Rocard, Victor Stănculescu, and Dragan Nikolić.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lloyd Shapley ranks 2,221 out of 20,380. Before him are Dennis Wilson (1944), Curtis LeMay (1906), Kate Capshaw (1953), Patrick Duffy (1949), Howard Martin Temin (1934), and Stockard Channing (1944). After him are Jonathan Edwards (1703), Glenn Frey (1948), Fredric March (1897), Robert Todd Lincoln (1843), Carly Simon (1945), and Martin Kove (1946).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Lloyd Shapley ranks 13. Before him are Mary Jackson (1921), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Alonzo Church (1903), Jesse Douglas (1897), Karen Uhlenbeck (1942), and Paul Cohen (1934). After him are John Milnor (1931), John G. Thompson (1932), Stephen Smale (1930), Edward Kasner (1878), Sam Loyd (1841), and Stephen Cole Kleene (1909).

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