The High Priest of Game Theory Passes Away
Lloyd Shapley passed away on 12th March, 2016. It is said that one can gauge the contributions of a person by the estimate of his/her peers. When the seminal paper of Gale and Shapley (1962) paper was reprinted in 2013, Ehud Kalai wrote a foreword for Shapley . Here's an excerpt: "More than a half a century later, the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Lloyd Shapley and Alvin Roth. Roth opened his Nobel Prize lecture with the following sentence: “Lloyd, when I began studying game theory your work touched every part of it and shaped it, and you were an inspiration not just for me but for the whole generation of game theorists that followed you . . . .” Robert Aumann, the 2005 Nobel Laureate game theorist who often introduced Shapley as the “ High Priest of Game Theory ,” stated in his Nobel Prize Lecture that Lloyd Shapley is the “ greatest game theorist of all times .”... My personal tribute to Shapley was writing with Bart Keijzer a paper called ...