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Anatol Rapoport (Anatol Borisovich Rapoport (Анатолій Борисович Рапопо́рт)) was born on 22 May, 1911 in Lozova, Russia (now Ukraine), is a Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (1911–2007). Discover Anatol Rapoport's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 96 years old?

Popular As Anatol Borisovich Rapoport (Анатолій Борисович Рапопо́рт)
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Age 96 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 22 May, 1911
Birthday 22 May
Birthplace Lozova, Russia (now Ukraine)
Date of death 2007
Died Place Toronto, Canada
Nationality Russia

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1911

Anatol Rapoport (Анатолій Борисович Рапопо́рт; Анато́лий Бори́сович Рапопо́рт; May 22, 1911 – January 20, 2007) was an American mathematical psychologist.

He contributed to general systems theory, to mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.

Rapoport was born in Lozova, Kharkov Governorate, Russia (in today's Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine) into a secular Jewish family.

1922

In 1922, he came to the United States, and in 1928 he became a naturalized citizen.

1929

He started studying music in Chicago and continued with piano, conducting and composition at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik where he studied from 1929 to 1934.

However, due to the rise of Nazism, he found it impossible to make a career as a pianist.

1941

He shifted his career into mathematics, completing a Ph.D. in mathematics under Otto Schilling and Abraham Adrian Albert at the University of Chicago in 1941 on the thesis Construction of Non-Abelian Fields with Prescribed Arithmetic.

According to The Globe and Mail, he was a member of the American Communist Party for three years, but quit before enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1941, serving in Alaska and India during World War II.

1947

After the war, he joined the Committee on Mathematical Biology at the University of Chicago (1947–54), publishing his first book, Science and the Goals of Man, co-authored with semanticist S. I. Hayakawa in 1950.

He also received a one-year fellowship at the prestigious Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

1954

In 1954 Anatol Rapoport co-founded the Society for General Systems Research, along with the researchers Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Ralph Gerard, and Kenneth Boulding.

1955

From 1955 to 1970, Rapoport was Professor of Mathematical Biology and Senior Research Mathematician at the University of Michigan, as well as founding member, in 1955, of the Mental Health Research Institute (MHRI) at the University of Michigan.

1965

He became president of the Society for General Systems Research in 1965.

Anatol Rapoport died of pneumonia in Toronto.

He was survived by his wife Gwen, daughter Anya, and sons Alexander and Anthony.

Rapoport contributed to general systems theory, to mathematical biology, and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.

He combined his mathematical expertise with psychological insights into the study of game theory, social networks, and semantics.

Rapoport extended these understandings into studies of psychological conflict, dealing with nuclear disarmament and international politics.

1966

Among many other well-known books on fights, games, violence, and peace, Rapoport was the author of over 300 articles and of "Two-Person Game Theory" (1966) and "N-Person Game Theory" (1970).

He analyzed contests in which there are more than two sets of conflicting interests, such as war, diplomacy, poker, or bargaining.

1970

In 1970, during the Vietnam War, 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".

He was appointed professor of mathematics and psychology at the University of Toronto (1970–79).

1980

The university appointed him professor emeritus in 1980.

He lived in bucolic Wychwood Park overlooking downtown Toronto, a neighbour of Marshall McLuhan.

In the 1980s, he won a computer tournament which was based on Robert Axelrod's The Evolution of Cooperation and was designed to further understanding of the ways in which cooperation could emerge through evolution.

The contenders had to present programs that could play iterated games of the prisoner's dilemma and these were pitted against each other.

Rapoport's entry, Tit-for-Tat, has only four lines of code.

The program opens by cooperating with its opponent.

It then plays exactly as the other side played in the previous game.

If the other side defected in the previous game, the program also defects; but only for one game.

1983

On his retirement from the University of Toronto, he became director of the Institute of Advanced Studies (Vienna) until 1983.

1984

University of Toronto appointed him professor of peace studies in 1984, a position he held until 1996, but continued to teach until 2000.

In 1984 he co-founded Science for Peace, was elected president and remained on its executive until 1998.

1989

His work led him to peace research, including books on The Origins of Violence (1989) and Peace, An Idea Whose Time Has Come (1993).

2001

His autobiography, Certainties and Doubts: A Philosophy of Life, was published in 2001.

An article celebrating his legacy and thinking includes a career overview alongside testimonials by scholars and family that provide a glimpse of Anatol Rapoport, the scientist and the person.

Philosopher and physicist Mario Bunge called Rapoport a polymath whose work Bunge found congenial because of its applicability to real-life problems, its use of mathematics, and its "avoidance of holistic blabber".

Rapoport had a versatile mind, working in mathematics, psychology, biology, game theory, social network analysis, and peace and conflict studies.

For example, he pioneered in the modeling of parasitism and symbiosis, researching cybernetic theory.

This went on to give a conceptual basis for his lifelong work in conflict and cooperation.