Alan D. Taylor

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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.{{MathGenealogy|id=38715}}

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) [https://books.google.com/books/about/Mathematics_and_Politics.html?id=jistymXGwUYC Mathematics and Politics: Strategy, Voting, Power, and Proof] Springer-Verlag. {{ISBN|0-387-94391-9}} and 0-387-94500-8;{{cite journal|author =Merrill III, Samuel|authorlink=Samuel Merrill III|title=Review: Mathematics and Politics by Alan D. Taylor, 1995|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|date=January 1997|volume=104|issue=1|pages=82–85|jstor=2974842|doi=10.2307/2974842}} with Allison Pacelli: {{cite book|title=2nd edition|year=2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEL_cm-xOnEC|isbn=9780387776439|last1=Taylor|first1=Alan D.|last2=Pacelli|first2=Allison M.}}
Steven J. Brams and Alan D. Taylor (1995). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2974850 An Envy-Free Cake Division Protocol] American Mathematical Monthly, 102, pp. 9–18. (JSTOR)
Steven J. Brams and Alan D. Taylor (1996). [https://books.google.com/books/about/Fair_Division.html?id=cLUA-sRhJ5QC Fair Division - From cake-cutting to dispute resolution] Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0-521-55390-3}} and {{ISBN|0-521-55644-9}}

[https://muse.union.edu/mathematics/people/#taylora Alan Taylor - Union College]