David Gale
Actor

David Gale Net Worth

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David Gale was a distinguished character actor born in Wimbledon, England in 1936. He began his career in the late 50s and achieved cult cinema popularity with his portrayal of Dr. Carl Hill in "Re-Animator". He also had recurring roles on various TV shows and a lengthy stage career, appearing in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. Gale was married and had a son, and passed away in 1991 due to complications from open heart surgery.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor
Birth Day December 13, 1921
Birth Place  Wimbledon, England, United Kingdom
Age 99 YEARS OLD
Died On March 7, 2008(2008-03-07) (aged 86)\nBerkeley, California
Birth Sign Scorpio
Residence United States
Alma mater Princeton University University of Michigan Swarthmore College
Known for Gale Transform linear programming convex analysis Chomp Bridg-It Gale–Shapley algorithm Ramsey problem
Awards John von Neumann Theory Prize (1980) Golden Goose Award (2013) Pirelli Internetional Award
Fields Mathematics, economics
Institutions University of California, Berkeley, 1966–2008 Brown University, 1950–65 Rand Corporation, 1957–58 Princeton University 1949–50
Doctoral advisor Albert W. Tucker
Doctoral students William A. Brock Hal Varian

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1947

Gale earned his B.A. from Swarthmore College, obtained an M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1947, and earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Princeton University in 1949. He taught at Brown University from 1950 to 1965 and then joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.

1960

Gale played a fundamental role in the development of the theory of linear programming and linear inequalities. His classic 1960 book The Theory of Linear Economic Models continues to be a standard reference for this area.

1962

Gale's 1962 paper with Lloyd Shapley on the stable marriage Problem provides the first formal statement and proof of a Problem that has far-reaching implications in many matching markets and is currently being applied in New York and Boston public school systems in assigning students to schools. In 2012 The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Shapley for this work.

1991

Gale wrote a Mathematical Entertainments column for the Mathematical Intelligencer from 1991 through 1997. The book Tracking the Automatic Ant collects these columns.

2004

In 2004 Gale developed MathSite, a pedagogic website that uses interactive exhibits to illustrate important mathematical ideas. MathSite won the 2007 Pirelli Internetional Award for Science Communication in Mathematics.

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Tags American economists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Brown University faculty University of California, Berkeley faculty University of Michigan alumni Princeton University alumni Swarthmore College alumni 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians John von Neumann Theory Prize winners 1921 births 2008 deaths Game theorists Fellows of the Econometric Society Combinatorial game theorists Guggenheim Fellows Fulbright Scholars

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