John Charles Chenoweth McKinsey (30 April 1908 – 26 October 1953), usually cited as J. C. C. McKinsey, was an American mathematician known for his work on game theory and mathematical logic,[2] particularly, modal logic.[3]

Biography

McKinsey received B.S. and M.S. degrees from New York University and a Ph.D. degree in 1936 from the University of California, Berkeley.[4] He was a Blumenthal Research Fellow at New York University from 1936 to 1937 and a Guggenheim Fellow from 1942 to 1943.[2][5] He also taught at Montana State College, and in Nevada, then Oklahoma, and in 1947 he went "to a research group at Douglas Aircraft Corporation" that later became the RAND Corporation.[1]: p. 161 

McKinsey worked at RAND until he was fired in 1951. The FBI considered him a security risk because he was a homosexual, in spite of the fact that he was an open homosexual who had been in a committed relationship for years. He complained to his superior "How can anyone threaten me with disclosure when everybody already knows?"[6]

From 1951 he taught at Stanford University, where he was later appointed a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy,[2] where he worked with Patrick Suppes on the axiomatic foundations of classical mechanics.[1]: p. 232  He committed suicide[6] at his home in Palo Alto in 1953.[2]

Selected works

Book

  • McKinsey, J.C.C. (2003). Introduction to the Theory of Games. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-42811-6. (originally publ. McGraw-Hill, 1952)[7]

Papers

With Alfred Tarski

References

  1. ^ a b c Anita Burdman Feferman; Solomon Feferman (2004), Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-80240-6
  2. ^ a b c d Memorial Resolution Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, Stanford Historical Society
  3. ^ "One of the very first applications of topology to (modal) logic is McKinsey’s 1941 paper." Top of-the Logic - Can Baskent
  4. ^ John Charles Chenoweth McKinsey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ J(ohn) C(harles) McKinsey - John Simon Guggeheim Memorial Foundation
  6. ^ a b Abella, Alex (2009). Soldiers of reason : the Rand Corporation and the rise of the American empire. Boston: Mariner Books. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-15-603344-2.
  7. ^ Wolfowitz, J. (1953). "Review: Introduction to the theory of games by J. C. C. McKinsey" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (3): 267–270. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1953-09703-8.


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