Melvin Dresher, born Dreszer on March 13, 1911, was a Polish-born American mathematician, notable for developing with Merrill Flood the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma while at RAND in 1950. He came to the United States in 1923, took his bachelor's degree at Lehigh University in 1933 and his doctorate at Yale University in 1937 under Øystein Ore, with a dissertation on multi-groups. After teaching at Michigan State College and working for the War Production Board and the National Defense Research Committee, he joined RAND in 1948 as a research mathematician. His book The Mathematics of Games of Strategy continues to be studied today. He died on June 4, 1992.
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He obtained his B.S. from Lehigh University in 1933 and went on to complete his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1937 under the supervision of Øystein Ore.
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