Lloyd S. Shapley's Birth Card: The 2 of Spades

In the record

Lloyd Stowell Shapley (June 2, 1923 – March 12, 2016) was an American mathematician and Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist. The birth-card coordinate for June 2 is the 2 of Spades — 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 2 of Spades coordinate

Lloyd S. Shapley's birthday maps to the 2 of Spades (The Skeptical Partner). 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 Lloyd S. Shapley. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.

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Lloyd S. Shapley in the public record

He contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory. Shapley is generally considered one of the most important contributors to the development of game theory since the work of von Neumann and Morgenstern. With Alvin E. Roth, Shapley won the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design." Lloyd Shapley was born on June 2, 1923, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the sons of astronomers Harlow Shapley and Martha Betz Shapley, both from Missouri. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and was a student at Harvard when he was drafted in 1943. He served in the United States Army Air Corps in Chengdu, China and received the Bronze Star decoration for breaking the Soviet weather code. After the war, Shapley returned to Harvard and graduated with an A.B. in mathematics in 1948. After working for one year at the RAND Corporation, he went to Princeton University where he received a Ph.D. in 1953 based on the thesis "Additive and non-additive set functions".

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

Where the record meets the 8 of Diamonds

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 Lloyd S. Shapley, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Strategic thinking about resources and power

Lloyd Stowell Shapley (June 2, 1923 – March 12, 2016) was an American mathematician and Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist.

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: economist. This line comes from the Uranus position of the 2♠'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. His thesis and post-doctoral work introduced the Shapley value and the core solution in game theory.
2. Shapley defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation." After graduating, he remained at Princeton for a short time before going back to the RAND corporation from 1954 to 1981.
3. In 1950, while a graduate student, Shapley invented the board game So Long Sucker, along with Mel Hausner, John Forbes Nash, and Martin Shubik.
4. Israeli economist and Nobel Laureate Robert Aumann considered Shapley to be "the greatest game theorist of all time." From 1981 until his death, Shapley was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), serving at the time of his death as a professor emeritus there, affiliated with the Mathematics and Economics departments.

Other laureates with this card

• Boris Pasternak — 1958 Literature
• Edmond H. Fischer — 1992 Physiology or Medicine
• Edward C. Kendall — 1950 Physiology or Medicine
• Feodor Lynen — 1964 Physiology or Medicine
• Georges Pire — 1958 Peace
• Horst L. Störmer — 1998 Physics
• James Watson — 1962 Physiology or Medicine
• John F. Enders — 1954 Physiology or Medicine
• Karl Gjellerup — 1917 Literature
• Michel Mayor — 2019 Physics
• Otto Hahn — 1944 Chemistry
• Paul Müller — 1948 Physiology or Medicine
• 1 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Lloyd S. Shapley's birth card?

The 2 of Spades. June 2 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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Where do Lloyd S. Shapley's dates come from?

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