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Olga Bondareva

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Olga Nikolaevna Bondareva was a distinguished Soviet mathematician and economist, born on April 27, 1937, who contributed to the fields of mathematical economics, especially game theory, and is best known as one of the two independent discoverers of the Bondareva-Shapley theorem. In 1954 she entered the Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty of Leningrad State University, received her Candidate of Sciences degree in 1963 under Nikolai Vorobyov, and defended her Doctor of Sciences degree in 1984 at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University. She published more than 70 scientific papers on game theory and mathematics, and was killed in a car accident while crossing the street in St. Petersburg on December 9, 1991.

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formulated independently by Olga Bondareva and Lloyd Shapley
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