| Alan D. Taylor | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Union College |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
| Doctoral advisor | James Earl Baumgartner |
| Known for | Brams–Taylor procedure |
Alan Dana Taylor is a mathematician who, with Steven Brams, solved the problem of envy-free fair division for an arbitrary number of people with the Brams–Taylor procedure.
Taylor received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Dartmouth College.[1]
He currently is the Marie Louise Bailey professor of mathematics at Union College, in Schenectady, New York.
He has an Erdős number of 1, having published a joint paper with Paul Erdős in 1992.