Eric S. Maskin's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs

In the record

Eric Stark Maskin (born December 12, 1950) is an American economist and mathematician. The birth-card coordinate for December 12 is the 6 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2007 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2007 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory

The 6 of Clubs coordinate

Eric S. Maskin's birthday maps to the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). 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 Eric S. Maskin. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson.

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Eric S. Maskin in the public record

He was jointly awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". He is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard University. Until 2011, he was the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a visiting lecturer with the rank of professor at Princeton University. Maskin was born in New York City on December 12, 1950, into a Jewish family, and spent his youth in Alpine, New Jersey. He graduated from Tenafly High School in Tenafly, New Jersey, in 1968. In 1972, he graduated with A.B. in mathematics from Harvard College. In 1974, he earned A.M. in applied mathematics and in 1976 earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, both at Harvard University.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Eric Maskin (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 6 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Eric S. Maskin, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Natural teaching and mentoring ability

He is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard University.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: mathematics, professor.

Also on the record

1. In 1975–76, he was a visiting student at Darwin College, Cambridge University.
2. In 1976, after earning his doctorate, Maskin became a research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University.
3. In the following year, he joined the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
4. In 1985 he returned to Harvard as the Louis Berkman Professor of Economics, where he remained until 2000.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred Werner — 1913 Chemistry
• Edwin M. McMillan — 1951 Chemistry
• Eugene O'Neill — 1936 Literature
• Frederick G. Banting — 1923 Physiology or Medicine
• Gustav Hertz — 1925 Physics
• Günter Grass — 1999 Literature
• Hideki Shirakawa — 2000 Chemistry
• Joshua D. Angrist — 2021 Economic Sciences
• K. Barry Sharpless — 2001 Chemistry; 2022 Chemistry
• Martin L. Perl — 1995 Physics
• Roger W. Sperry — 1981 Physiology or Medicine
• Salvatore Quasimodo — 1959 Literature
• 5 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Eric S. Maskin's birth card?

The 6 of Clubs. December 12 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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