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John Charles Harsanyi ( Hungarian: Harsányi János Károly; May 29, 1920 – August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994. Harsanyi is best known for his contributions to the study of game ...
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John Harsanyi was born as Harsányi János Károly on May 29, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary, into a family of Jewish descent. His father Charles Harsanyi had a diploma in pharmacology and owned a pharmacy, deriving a comfortable income from it. His mother Alice (née Gombos) Harsanyi was very passionate about music.
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Aug 9, 2000 · John Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-born American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.
Harsanyi (born Harsányi János Károly) was the only child of Charles and Alice Gombos Harsanyi. His father, a pharmacist by profession, and mother both converted to Catholicism from Judaism. Harsanyi attended the Lutheran Gymnasium in Budapest, whose graduating class of 1921 included one of the founding fathers of game theory, John von Neumann.
Aug 9, 2000 · Harsanyi was born on May 29, 1920, in Budapest, Hungary, the son of Alice Harsányi (née Gombos) and Károly Harsányi, a pharmacy owner. His parents converted from Judaism to Catholicism a year before he was born. He attended high school at the Lutheran Gymnasium in Budapest.
He moved to the United States in 1956, and spent most of his life there. According to György Marx, he was one of The Martians. Early life. Harsanyi was born on May 29, 1920, in Budapest, Hungary, the son of Alice Harsányi (née Gombos) and Károly Harsányi, a pharmacy owner. His parents converted from Judaism to Catholicism a year before he ...
John Charles Harsanyi (Hungarian: Harsányi János Károly; May 29, 1920 – August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American economist. He is best known for his contributions to the study of game theory and its application to economics, specifically for his developing the highly innovative analysis of games of incomplete information, so-called Bayesian games.
