Anatol Rapoport

Anatol Rapoport (born May 22 1911) is a Russian-born American Jewish, mathematical psychologist. He is one of the founders of the General systems theory. He also contributed to Mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of Social interaction and Stochastic models of contagion. He combined his mathematical expertise with psychological insights to the study of Game theory and semantics. Rapoport extended these understandings into studies of psychological conflict, dealing with nuclear disarmament and international politics.

Selected works

• Rapoport, A. (1953). "Spread of information through a population with sociostructural bias: I. Assumption of transitivity." Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 15, 523-533.
• Rapoport, A., Horvath, W.J., (1960) "The theoretical channel capacity of a single neuron as determined by various coding systems". Information and Control, 3(4):335-350.
• Rapoport, A. (1963). "Mathematical models of social interaction". In R. D. Luce, R. R. Bush, & E. Galanter (Eds.), Handbook of Mathematical Psychology (Vol. II, pp. 493-579). New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.
• Gerard, R.W., Kluckhohn, C., Rapaport, A. (1956). "Biological and cultural evolution: Some analogies and explorations". Behavioral Science 1: 6-34.
• Slobodkin L, Rapoport A. (1974). "An optimal strategy of evolution". Q. Rev. Biol. 49:181-200