Anatol Rapoport was an American mathematical psychologist.
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Anatol Rapoport was an American mathematical psychologist.
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Anatol Rapoport contributed to general systems theory, to mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.
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Anatol Rapoport received a one-year fellowship at the prestigious Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California.
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In 1970, during the Vietnam War, Anatol Rapoport moved to Toronto "to live in a country that was not committed to a messianic role—a small peaceful country with no aspiration to major power status".
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Anatol Rapoport was appointed professor of mathematics and psychology at the University of Toronto .
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Anatol Rapoport lived in bucolic Wychwood Park overlooking downtown Toronto, a neighbour of Marshall McLuhan.
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In 1954 Anatol Rapoport co-founded the Society for General Systems Research, along with the researchers Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Ralph Gerard, and Kenneth Boulding.
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Anatol Rapoport became president of the Society for General Systems Research in 1965.
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Anatol Rapoport is survived by his wife Gwen, daughter Anya, and sons Alexander and Anthony.
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Anatol Rapoport contributed to general systems theory, to mathematical biology, and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.
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Anatol Rapoport combined his mathematical expertise with psychological insights into the study of game theory, social networks, and semantics.
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Anatol Rapoport extended these understandings into studies of psychological conflict, dealing with nuclear disarmament and international politics.
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Anatol Rapoport had a versatile mind, working in mathematics, psychology, biology, game theory, social network analysis, and peace and conflict studies.
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Anatol Rapoport analyzed contests in which there are more than two sets of conflicting interests, such as war, diplomacy, poker, or bargaining.
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Anatol Rapoport's children report that he was a strong chess player but a bad poker player because he non-verbally revealed the strength of his hands.
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Anatol Rapoport is the originator of the theory behind the interpretation of bias in social networks, which pertains to the extent to which a network deviates from a random base model.
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Anatol Rapoport introduced what is known as "preferential attachment mechanism" in biased networks.
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Anatol Rapoport published an article that outlined a probabilistic approach to animal sociology, which is one of the earliest efforts at modeling simple social structures.
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Anatol Rapoport was a leading organizer of the first teach-ins against the Vietnam War at the University of Michigan, a model that spread rapidly throughout North America.
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Anatol Rapoport said he was an abolitionist, rather than a total pacifist: "I'm for killing the institution of war".
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Anatol Rapoport's students report that he was an engaged and inspiring professor who captured their attention, imagination and interest with his wide-ranging knowledge, passion for the subject, good humor, kind and generous spirit, attentiveness to student concerns, and animated teaching style.
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Anatol Rapoport was recognized in the 1980s for his contribution to world peace through nuclear conflict restraint via his game theoretic models of psychological conflict resolution.
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Anatol Rapoport won the Lenz International Peace Research Prize in 1976.
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