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David Silverman (scholar)
David Silverman may refer to: * David Silverman (animator) (born 1957) *David Silverman (activist) (born 1966), American activist and former president of American Atheists * David Silverman, a mathematician known for Silverman's game In game theory, Silverman's game is a two-person zero-sum game played on the unit square. It is named for mathematician David Silverman. It is played by two players on a given set of positive real numbers. Before play starts, a threshold and ... * David P. Silverman, American Egyptologist {{human name disambiguation, Silverman, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Silverman (animator)
David Silverman (born March 15, 1957) is an American animator who has directed numerous episodes of the animated TV series ''The Simpsons'', as well as its film adaptation. Silverman was involved with the series from the very beginning, animating all of the original short ''Simpsons'' cartoons that aired on ''The Tracey Ullman Show.'' He went on to serve as director of animation for several years. He also did the animation for the 2016 film ''The Edge of Seventeen,'' which was produced by Gracie Films. Early life and career Silverman was born to a Jewish family on Long Island, New York. His father, Joseph Silverman, was a chemical engineering professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, for over 30 years. He grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and attended the University of Maryland for two years, focusing on art. He then attended UCLA and majored in animation. Early in his career with ''The Simpsons'', he was a subject on the December 26, 1990, episode (#83) of ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Silverman (activist)
David Silverman (born August 13, 1966) is an American secular advocate. Silverman previously served as president of American Atheists, a non-profit organization supporting the rights of atheists and the removal of expressions of religion in government, from 2010 to 2018. His annual Christmas controversy, anti-Christmas billboard which calls Christmas "a myth" has often sparked controversy. Silverman is also the subject of the popular ''Are You Serious (face)?'' internet meme. Silverman identifies as a firebrand atheist and defines firebrand atheism as vocally "attacking" humans' "silly" religious beliefs without attacking the individuals themselves. Early life Silverman was born in a middle-class Reform Judaism, Reform Jewish family in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He went to Hebrew school and was bar mitzvahed when he was 13 years old. Silverman began publicly challenging religion in high school and often states in interviews that he became an atheist at the age of six. Althoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silverman's Game
In game theory, Silverman's game is a two-person zero-sum game played on the unit square. It is named for mathematician David Silverman. It is played by two players on a given set of positive real numbers. Before play starts, a threshold and penalty are chosen with and . For example, consider to be the set of integers from to , and . Each player chooses an element of , and . Suppose player A plays and player B plays . Without loss of generality, assume player A chooses the larger number, so . Then the payoff to A is 0 if , 1 if and if . Thus each player seeks to choose the larger number, but there is a penalty of for choosing too large a number. A large number of variants have been studied, where the set may be finite, countable, or uncountable In mathematics, an uncountable set (or uncountably infinite set) is an infinite set that contains too many elements to be countable. The uncountability of a set is closely related to its cardinal number: a set is u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |