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Mark Bruce Garman (born 1941) is an American applied mathematician and social scientist who is Professor Emeritus of Finance and Associate Dean of Faculty, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. His most recent research works have focused on financial engineering and capital market theory, but he has also made contributions to the theory of social choice, operations management, and market microstructure.

Biography
Garman received his BS (1965) as a double major in Physics and Mathematics from Stanford University and then his MS (1968) in Industrial Administration and PhD (1970) in System Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

In 1966, he began a two-year Master's program in applied mathematics at the University of Colorado (in his home state). During this year, he worked with the mathematical sociologist William N. McPhee. McPhee had published the book Formal Theories of Mass Behavior, which involved the use of influence matrices. Garman recognized that influence matrices were essentially discrete Markov chains running backwards in time, and was able to add to McPhee's results with insights from Markov chain theory. Through McPhee, Garman was introduced to the work of Herbert A. Simon, who at the time was involved in artificial intelligence and organization theory. Accordingly, Garman did not finish his degree program at the University of Colorado, but instead enrolled in the PhD program at the Tepper School of Business (then called the Graduate School of Industrial Administration) at Carnegie Mellon University (then named Carnegie Institute of Technology).

While at Carnegie Mellon University, Garman was influenced in artificial intelligence topics by Herbert A. Simon, Alan Newell, and Alan J. Perlis, in operations management topics by Egon Balas, and in social choice topics by Morton Kamien. Indeed, his first academic publication was co-authored with Kamien, entitled "The Voting Paradox: Probability Calculations"; this remains his most widely-cited work, having collected over X social science citations (by 2018). Dr. Garman was also the founder of Financial Engineering Associates, Inc., a company based in Berkeley, the mission of which was to provide financial engineering software to banks and other financial institutions, specifically scientific calculation routines for derivatives and value at risk. This firm was acquired by Barra, Inc. in 2002.