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"I'll Never Win the Nobel": Meet Marilda Sotomayor, Brazil's Leading Game Theory Scholar

Marilda Sotomayor, 82, a Brazilian mathematician and professor emerita at the University of S�o Paulo (USP), is one of the world's leading experts in game theory, a field she helped develop alongside Alvin Roth, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics. In the 1980s she worked with Roth at the University of Pittsburgh and co-authored Two-Sided Matching, a book that helped establish matching…

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