Alan D. Taylor
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Alan D. Taylor
- Alan Dana Taylor** (born October 27, 1947) is an American mathematician who, with [[steven-brams]], solved the problem of [[envy-free-cake-cutting]] for an arbitrary number of people with the [[brams–taylor-procedure]].
Taylor received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Dartmouth College.
He was the Marie Louise Bailey professor of mathematics at Union College, in Schenectady, New York.
He retired from the college in 2022.
Selected publications
Alan D. Taylor (1995) [Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power, and Proof*](https://books.google.com/books/about/Mathematics_and_Politics.html?id=jistymXGwUYC) Springer-Verlag. and 0-387-94500-8; with Allison Pacelli:
Steven J. Brams and Alan D. Taylor (1995). [An Envy-Free Cake Division Protocol*](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2974850) American Mathematical Monthly, 102, pp. 9–18. (JSTOR)
Steven J. Brams and Alan D. Taylor (1996). [Fair Division - From cake-cutting to dispute resolution*](https://books.google.com/books/about/Fair_Division.html?id=cLUA-sRhJ5QC) Cambridge University Press. and
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## External links
*[Alan Taylor - Union College](https://muse.union.edu/mathematics/people/#taylora)