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Lloyd Shapley (1923-2016) was an economist, mathematician, and statistician from the United States. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died in Tucson, Arizona. Shapley won the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was the son of Harlow Shapley and was educated at Harvard University, Princeton University, and Phillips Exeter Academy.
His doctoral advisor at Princeton was Albert W. Tucker. Shapley was known for various accomplishments in the fields of economics and mathematics, including the Shapley value, Shapley–Shubik power index, stochastic games, Bondareva–Shapley theorem, Shapley–Folkman lemma & theorem, Gale–Shapley algorithm, potential game, core/kernel/nucleolus, market games, authority distribution, multi-person utility, and non-atomic games.
Lloyd Shapley's academic disciplines were economics and mathematics.
