Cake-Cutting Algorithms: Be Fair if You Can

Robertson, Jack; Webb, William

ISBN 10: 1568810768 / ISBN 13: 9781568810768

Published by A K Peters/CRC Press, 1998

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Title: Cake-Cutting Algorithms: Be Fair if You Can

Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

The challenge of dividing an asset fairly, from cakes to more important properties, is of great practical importance in many situations. Since the famous Polish school of mathematicians (Steinhaus, Banach, and Knaster) introduced and described algorithms for the fair division problem in the 1940s, the concept has been widely popularized.

This book gathers into one readable and inclusive source a comprehensive discussion of the state of the art in cake-cutting problems for both the novice and the professional. It offers a complete treatment of all cake-cutting algorithms under all the considered definitions of "fair" and presents them in a coherent, reader-friendly manner. Robertson and Webb have brought this elegant problem to life for both the bright high school student and the professional researcher.

Review:

Cake-Cutting Algorithms will engage and challenge both veteran and novice mathematicians...
       -- Francis Edward Su, American Mathematical Monthly , March 2000