Richard Arnold Epstein, also known under the pseudonym E. P. Stein, is an American game theorist.
Education
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1948. He then pursued graduate studies at the University of California Berkeley. He received his doctorate in physics, on the Born formalization of isochromatic lines, in 1961, from the University of Barcelona.
Career
He then shifted from spectroscopy to space communications, and worked for eighteen years as an electronics and communications engineer for various United States. space and missile programs. He was variously employed by Parsons-Aerojet Company at Cape Canaveral, Glenn L. Martin Company, Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Space Technology Laboratories, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Hughes Aircraft Space Systems Division. Epstein has numerous technical publications in the areas of probability theory, statistics, game theory, and space communications.
Membership
In 1956, he was elected to member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.