Robert Aumann

Robert Aumann
Aumann in 2015
Born
Robert John Aumann

(1930-06-08) 8 June 1930 (age 94)
NationalityIsraeli, American
EducationCity College of New York (BS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
Academic career
FieldMathematical economics
Game theory
InstitutionHebrew University of Jerusalem
Stony Brook University
Doctoral
advisor
George Whitehead, Jr.
Doctoral
students
David Schmeidler
Sergiu Hart
Abraham Neyman
Yair Tauman
AwardsNobel 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
ThesisAsphericity of alternating linkages (1955)

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.

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]

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