Lloyd Shapley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lloyd Shapley

American economist and mathematician

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1923

Place of Birth: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 12-Mar-2016

Profession: mathematician, economist, university teacher, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Lloyd Stowell Shapley (; June 2, 1923 – March 12, 2016) was an American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist.
He contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory.
Shapley is generally considered one of the most important contributors to the development of game theory since the work of von Neumann and Morgenstern.
With Alvin E.
Roth, Shapley won the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."