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  1. Robert Aumann. 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 ...

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  2. Apr 26, 2024 · Robert J. Aumann (born June 8, 1930, Frankfurt am Main, Ger.) is an Israeli mathematician, who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics with Thomas C. Schelling.Aumann’s primary contribution to economics involved the analysis of repeated noncooperative encounters, a subject in the mathematical discipline of game theory.

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  3. Robert Aumann was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, to an orthodox Jewish family. In 1938, the family emigrated to New York, USA, due to the Nazi persecution of Jews. He had a broad education, with a special interest in mathematics and entered the MIT in Boston for graduate studies.

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  5. Nov 3, 2023 · Robert J. Aumann: An economist and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics, along with Thomas Schelling, for his analysis of game theory in conflict and cooperation scenarios. Game theory is a ...

  6. WAR AND PEACE. Prize Lecture1, December 8, 2005. by. Robert J. Aumann. Center for the Study of Rationality, and Department of Mathematics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. “Wars and other conflicts are among the main sources of human misery.”. Thus begins the Advanced Information announcement of the 2005 Bank of Sweden Prize in ...

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  7. Robert J. Aumann is a Nobel prize-winning Israeli-American mathematician who has made significant contributions to the theory of games. When he was eight years old, he and his family fled his native Germany to the United States three months before the Kristallnacht pogrom. He attended a Jewish high school in New York City before enrolling at ...

  8. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Robert Aumann discusses his scientific beginnings and the creative appeal of geometry, his interest in number theory at City College (3:38), knot theory at MIT (7:59), and his stumble into Game Theory thereafter (15:27). He also explains his move to Hebrew University in Jerusalem ...

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