mathematician
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History
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, and professor of
applied mathematics
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Guillermo Owen was born May 4, 1938, in Bogotá, Colombia, and obtained a
B.S.
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Ph.D.
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degree from
Princeton University
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Rice University
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(1969–1977) and Los Andes University in Colombia (1978–1982, 2008), apart from having given lectures in many universities in
Europe
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and
Latin America
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. He is currently holding the position of Distinguished Professor of applied mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
Owen is member of the Colombian Academy of Sciences, The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Barcelona, and the
Third World Academy of Sciences
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. He is associate editor of ''the International Journal of Game Theory'', and fellow of the International Game Theory Society.
Honors and awards
The Escuela Naval Almirante Padilla of Cartagena gave him an honorary degree of Naval Science Professional in June 2004.
Owen was named Honorary President of the XIV Latin Ibero American Congress on Operations Research - CLAIO 2008. Cartagena, Colombia, September 2008.
The university of Lower Normandy, in
Caen, France
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Full list of publications . Retrieved 2 July 2008.
* 1968. ''Game theory''. Academic Press
* 1970. ''Finite mathematics and calculus; mathematics for the social and management sciences''. With M. Evans Munroe.
* 1983. ''Information pooling and group decision making : proceedings of the Second University of California, Irvine, Conference on Political Economy''. Edited with Bernard Grofman.
* 1999. ''Discrete mathematics and game theory.''
* 2001. ''Power indices and coalition formation''. Edited with Manfred J. Holler.