Alvin E. Roth's Birth Card: The King of Hearts

In the record

Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American academic. The birth-card coordinate for December 18 is the King of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2012 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2012 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design

The King of Hearts coordinate

Alvin E. Roth's birthday maps to the King of Hearts (The Compassionate King). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Alvin E. Roth. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it.

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Alvin E. Roth in the public record

He is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritus at Harvard University. He was president of the American Economic Association in 2017. Roth has made significant contributions to the fields of game theory, market design and experimental economics, and is known for his emphasis on applying economic theory to solutions for "real-world" problems. In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design". Alvin Roth was born in the New York City borough of Queens to Ernest and Lillian Roth, who were both public high school teachers and Jewish. Roth followed his brother Ted Roth in attending the Science Honors Program at Columbia University, which offered classes to junior high school and high school students on Saturdays and entered Columbia's engineering school in the Fall of 1968 when he was 16, without having graduated from high school. Roth graduated from Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in Operations Research. He then moved to Stanford University, receiving both his Master's and PhD also in Operations Research there in 1973 and 1974 respectively.

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Where the record meets the 2 of Clubs

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Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American academic.

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Also on the record

1. After leaving Stanford, Roth went on to teach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, which he left in 1982 to become the Andrew W.
2. Mellon professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh.
3. While at Pittsburgh, he also served as a fellow in the university's Center for Philosophy of Science and as a professor in the Katz Graduate School of Business.
4. In 1998, Roth left to join the faculty at Harvard where he remained until deciding to return to Stanford in 2012.

Other laureates with this card

• André F. Cournand — 1956 Physiology or Medicine
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• Baruch S. Blumberg — 1976 Physiology or Medicine
• Charles H. Townes — 1964 Physics
• Charles Richet — 1913 Physiology or Medicine
• Clinton Davisson — 1937 Physics
• Czesław Miłosz — 1980 Literature
• Doris Lessing — 2007 Literature
• George Beadle — 1958 Physiology or Medicine
• Harold E. Varmus — 1989 Physiology or Medicine
• Ivan Bunin — 1933 Literature
• J.J. Thomson — 1906 Physics
• 10 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Alvin E. Roth's birth card?

The King of Hearts. December 18 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

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