Robert Aumann
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| Born | Robert John Aumann 8 June 1930 Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Nationality | Israel, United States |
| Fields |
Mathematical economics Game theory |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology City College of New York |
| Doctoral advisor | George Whitehead, Jr. |
| Doctoral students |
Bezalel Peleg David Schmeidler Shmuel Zamir Elon Kohlberg Zvi Artstein Benyamin Shitovitz Eugene Wesley Sergiu Hart Abraham Neyman Yair Tauman Dov Samet Ehud Lehrer Yossi Feinberg Itai Arieli |
| Notable awards |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics John von Neumann Theory Prize Harvey Prize in Science and Technology Israel Prize for Economical Research |
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 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2005 for his work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis. He shared the prize with Thomas Schelling.
Aumann was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and fled to the United States with his family in 1938, two weeks before the Kristallnacht pogrom. He attended the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School, a yeshiva high school in New York City. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1950 with a B.Sc. in Mathematics. He received his M.Sc. in 1952, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1955, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral dissertation, Asphericity of Alternating Linkages, concerned knot theory. His advisor was George Whitehead, Jr.
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