Merrill M. Flood
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Merrill Meeks Flood was a mathematician, notable for developing, with Melvin Dresher, the the game theoretical Prisoner's dilemma model of cooperation and conflict while at RAND in 1950. He obtained a Master's degree in number theory at the University of Nebraska, and a PhD at Princeton University in 1935 under the supervision of Joseph Wedderburn, for the dissertation Division by Non-singular Matric Polynomials.
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- http://operationsresearch.org/History/Gallery/Presidents/TIMS/mflood.htm
- An interview by Albert Tucker (San Francisco on 14 May 1984).
