Herbert Scarf

Herbert Eli "Herb" Scarf (July 25, 1930 – November 15, 2015)
Herb Scarf
was an American mathematical economist and Sterling Professor
of Economics at Yale University.

Education and career

Scarf was born in Philadelphia, the son of Jewish emigrants from
Ukraine and Russia, Lene (Elkman) and Louis Scarf.[1] During his
undergraduate work he finished in the top 10 of the 1950 William
Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the major mathematics
competition between universities across the United States and
Canada. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1954, supervised
by Salomon Bochner.[2]

Contributions
Among his notable works is a seminal paper in cooperative game
in which he showed sufficiency for a core in general balanced Born Herbert Eli Scarf
games. Sufficiency and necessity had been previously shown by July 25, 1930
Lloyd Shapley for games where players were allowed to transfer Philadelphia,
utility between themselves freely. Necessity is shown to be lost in Pennsylvania, U.S.
the generalization.
Died November 15, 2015
(aged 85)
Recognition Sag Harbor, New
York, U.S.
Scarf received the 1973 Frederick W. Lanchester Award for his
contribution The Computation of Economic Equilibria with the Academic career
collaboration of Terje Hansen, which pioneered the use of numeric Institution Yale University
algorithms to solve general equilibrium systems using Applied
Field Economics,
general equilibrium models. He was a member of the American
Mathematics
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of
Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, and was elected Alma mater Temple University
to the 2002 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations (BA)
Research and the Management Sciences.[3][4][5][6] Princeton University
(MA, PhD)
References Doctoral Salomon Bochner
advisor
1. Roberts, Sam (November 21, 2015). "Herbert Scarf, an
Doctoral Duncan K. Foley
Economist's Mathematician, Dies at 85 (Published
2015)" (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/business/h students Donald Iglehart
erbert-scarf-an-economists-mathematician-dies-at-85.ht Timothy Kehoe
ml). The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
Rolf Mantel
2. Herbert Scarf (https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=811
Frank Proschan
 9) at the Mathematics Genealogy Project John Shoven
3. Fellows: Alphabetical List (https://web.archive.org/web/2 Ludo Van der Heyden
0190510220119/https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-E
xcellence/Fellows/Fellows-Alphabetical-List), Institute Menahem Yaari
for Operations Research and the Management Awards John von Neumann
Sciences, archived from the original (https://www.inform Theory Prize (1983)
s.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Fellows/Fellows-Alphab
etical-List) on 2019-05-10, retrieved 2019-10-09 Information (https://ideas.repec.org/
4. "Herbert Eli Scarf" (https://www.amacad.org/person/herb e/psc54.html) at IDEAS / RePEc
ert-eli-scarf). American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Retrieved 2022-03-21.
5. "Herbert E. Scarf" (http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/50848.ht
ml). www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
6. "APS Member History" (https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Herbert+Eli+
Scarf&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=adva
nced). search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-03-21.

External links
Personal web site (http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/~hes/)
The works of Herbert Scarf (https://web.archive.org/web/20090418004842/http://cepa.newsc
hool.edu/het/profiles/scarf.htm)
Herbert Scarf (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156732804) at Find a Grave

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