Brams
Brams is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Steven Brams (born 1940), American game theorist and political scientist * Ingeborg Brams (1921–1989), Danish film, radio, television, and theatre actress See also * Brahms (surname) * Bram (other) Bram may refer to: People * Bram (given name) * Bram (surname) * Bram (wrestler) (born 1986), ring name of professional wrestler Thomas Raymond Latimer * Bram Tchaikovsky (born 1950), stage name of British musician Peter Bramall * Bram Stoker Iris ...

Steven Brams
Steven J. Brams (born November 28, 1940 in Concord, New Hampshire) is an American game theorist and political scientist at the New York University Department of Politics. Brams is best known for using the techniques of game theory, public choice theory, and social choice theory to analyze voting systems and fair division. He is one of the independent discoverers of approval voting, as well as extensions of approval voting to multiple-winner elections to give proportional representation of different interests. Brams was a co-discoverer, with Alan Taylor, of the first envy-free cake-cutting solution for ''n'' people. Previous to the Brams-Taylor procedure, the cake-cutting problem had been one of the most important open problems in contemporary mathematics. He is co-inventor with Taylor of the fair-division procedure, adjusted winner, which was patented by New York University in 1999 (# 5,983,205). Adjusted winner has been licensed to a Boston law firm, which formed a company, Fai ...
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Ingeborg Brams
Ingeborg Brams (; 9 December 1921 – 14 October 1989) was a Danish film, radio, television and theatre actress. She was born in Hobro, Denmark and died in Denmark. She appeared in 11 films between 1941 and 1957 plus several TV and radio plays, perhaps best remembered as a revered theater actress with a long connection to the Royal Danish Theatre lasting 18 years and countless performances to her credit. In the early 1960s she would start to develop a growing severe stage fright then spent the last twenty years of her life mainly with public book readings, in churches and theatres as well as more radio work. Her step-granddaughter is the Danish recorder player Michala Petri. Selected filmography * '' My Dear Wives'' (1943) * ''The Bishop'' (1944) * '' October Roses'' (1946) * ''Lucky Journey ''Lucky Journey'' ( da, Lykke på rejsen) is a 1947 Danish family film directed by Christen Jul. It tells the story of a young nobleman who is in an unhappy marriage with his beauti ...
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Brahms (surname)
Brahms is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Brahms (1692–1758), German land owner * Caryl Brahms, writer *David M. Brahms, Brigadier General of the United States Marine Corps * Helma Sanders-Brahms (born 1940), German film director *Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), German composer and pianist *William B. Brahms William Bernard Brahms (born October 1, 1966) is an American librarian, encyclopedist, author and historian best known for his encyclopedic works on historical "lasts" (as opposed to "firsts"), in particular, the reference works ''Notable Last Fa ..., New Jersey historian Fictional characters: * Leah Brahms, character in ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' * Miss Brahms, character from the British comedy show, ''Are You Being Served?'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Brahms German-language surnames ...
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