J.C.C. McKinsey
| J.C.C. McKinsey | |
|---|---|
| Born |
30 April 1908 Clinton County, Indiana |
| Died |
October 26, 1953 (aged 45) Palo Alto |
| Residence | Palo Alto |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields |
Mathematical logic Game theory |
| Institutions | RAND Corporation, Stanford University |
| Alma mater | New York University, University of California |
| Doctoral advisor | Benjamin Abram Bernstein |
| Doctoral students |
Jean Rubin William Wernick |
| Known for | Game theory |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
John Charles Chenoweth McKinsey (30 April 1908 – 26 October 1953) (also known as J. C. C. McKinsey or Chen McKinsey)[1]:p. 141) was an American mathematician known for his work on mathematical logic and game theory.[2] He also made significant contributions to modal logic.[3]
Biography
McKinsey received B.S. and M.S. degrees from New York University and a Ph.D. degree in 1936 from the University of California, Berkeley.[4] He was a Blumenthal Research Fellow at New York University from 1936 to 1937 and a Guggenheim Fellow from 1942 to 1943.[2][5] He also taught at Montana State College, and in Nevada, then Oklahoma, and in 1947 he went "to a research group at Douglas Aircraft Corporation" that later became the RAND Corporation[1]:p. 161
McKinsey worked at RAND until he was fired in 1951. The FBI considered him a security risk because he was a homosexual, in spite of the fact that he was an open homosexual who had been in a committed relationship for years. He complained to his superior "How can anyone threaten me with disclosure when everybody already knows?"[6] From 1951 he taught at Stanford University, where he was later appointed a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy,[2] where he worked with Patrick Suppes on the axiomatic foundations of classical mechanics.[1]:p. 232 He committed suicide[6] at his home in Palo Alto in 1953.[2]
Bibliography
- McKinsey, J.C.C. (2003). Introduction to the Theory of Games. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-42811-7. (originally publ. McGraw-Hill, 1952)[7]
- "A reduction in number of the postulates for C. S. Lewis' system of strict implication". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (6): 425–427. 1934. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1934-05881-6. MR 1562873.
- "On the independence of undefined ideas". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (4): 291–297. 1935. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1935-06074-4. MR 1563075.
- "Reducible Boolean functions". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (4): 263–267. 1936. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1936-06285-3. MR 1563282.
- "On Boolean functions of many variables". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (3): 343–362. 1936. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1936-1501878-6. MR 1501878.
- "A New Definition of Truth". Synthese. 7: 428–433. 1948.
- "Some notions and problems of game theory". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (6): 591–611. 1952. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1952-09648-8. MR 0052748.
- "Axiomatic foundations of classical particle mechanics". Journal of rational mechanics and analysis. 2: 253–72. 1953.
- "Philosophy and the axiomatic foundations of physics". Proceedings of the 11th international congress of philosophy. 6: 49–53. 1953.
- "Some theorem about the sential calculi of Lewis and Heyting". Journal of symbolic logic. 13: 1–15. 1948.
Notes
- 1 2 3 Solomon Feferman; Anita Burdman Feferman (2004), Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-80240-7
- 1 2 3 4 Memorial Resolution, Stanford Historical Society
- ↑ "One of the very first applications of topology to (modal) logic is McKinsey’s 1941 paper." Top of-the Logic - Can Baskent
- ↑ John Charles Chenoweth McKinsey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ J(ohn) C(harles) McKinsey - John Simon Guggeheim Memorial Foundation
- 1 2 Abella, Alex (2009). Soldiers of reason : the Rand Corporation and the rise of the American empire. Boston: Mariner Books. p. 74. ISBN 0-15-603344-5.
- ↑ Wolfowitz, J. (1953). "Review: Introduction to the theory of games by J. C. C. McKinsey" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (3): 267–270. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1953-09703-8.