Robert Aumann
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Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: ישראל אומן, Yisrael Aumann; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He also holds a visiting position at Stony Brook University, and is one of the founding members of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory.
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Born | Robert John Aumann (1930-06-08) 8 June 1930 (age 93) |
Nationality (legal) | Israeli, American |
Education | City College of New York (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) |
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Institution | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Stony Brook University |
Field | Mathematical economics Game theory |
Doctoral advisor | George Whitehead, Jr. |
Doctoral students | David Schmeidler Sergiu Hart Abraham Neyman Yair Tauman |
Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics John von Neumann Theory Prize Harvey Prize in Science and Technology Israel Prize for Economical Research |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Asphericity of alternating linkages (1955) |
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Aumann received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005 for his work on conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis.[1] He shared the prize with Thomas Schelling.[1]