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.

[2] Brams was a co-discoverer, with Alan Taylor, of the first envy-free cake-cutting solution for n people.

[4] He is co-inventor with Taylor of the fair-division procedure, adjusted winner,[5] which was patented by New York University in 1999 (# 5,983,205).

[6] Brams has applied game theory to a wide variety of strategic situations, from the Bible[7][8] and theology [9] to international relations [10][11] to sports.

Brams worked briefly in U.S. federal government positions and for the Institute for Defense Analyses before taking an assistant professor position at Syracuse University in 1967.