James Andrew Clarkson (7 February 1906 – 6 June 1970) was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics who specialized in number theory.
He was an operations' analyst during World War II, and was awarded the Medal of Freedom for his achievements.
He wrote First reader on game theory, and many of his academic papers have been published in several scientific journals.
Originally from Massachusetts, in 1934 he received the Ph.D. in Mathematics from Brown University, with the dissertation entitled On Definitions of Bounded Variation for Functions of Two Variables, On Double Riemann–Stieltjes Integrals under the supervision of advisor Clarence Raymond Adams.
[1] In 1943, he was assigned as a bombing analyst at the Bombing Accuracy Subsection of the Operational Research Section (ORS) at the Headquarters Eighth Air Force division of the United States Air Force, alongside other mathematicians like Frank M. Stewart, J. W. T. Youngs, Ray E. Gilman, and W. J. Youden.