Robert Aumann
Israel Robert John Aumann (born June 8, 1930, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is an Israeli mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He works at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics (shared with Thomas Schelling) for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis".
Brief Experience
He graduated from the City College of New York in 1950 with a B.S. in Mathematics. He received his S.M. in 1952, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1955, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1956.
Contribution
Aumann was the first to define the concept of correlated equilibrium in game theory, which is a type of equilibrium in non-cooperative games that is more flexible than the classical Nash Equilibrium.
As a religious Jew Aumann used Game Theory also to analyze Talmudic dilemmas. He was able to solve the mystery about the "division problem", a long-time dilemma of explaining the Talmudic rational in dividing the heritage of a late husband to his three wives, depending on the worth of the heritage (compared to its orginal worth). He dedicated the article in that matter to his son, Shlomo Aumann, who fell in Operation Peace For Galilee.
Awards
His is reciepent of the following awards:
- 1993: Harvey Award for Economics
- 1994: Israel Prize for Economical Research
- 2002: Emet Prize for economic.
- 2005: Nobel Prize in Economics.
Works
- Values of Non-Atomic Games, Princeton University Press,Princeton, 1974 (with L. S. Shapley).
- Game Theory (in Hebrew), Everyman's University, Tel Aviv, 1981 (with Y. Tauman and S. Zamir), Vol 1，Vol 2.
- Lectures on Game Theory, Underground Classics in Economics, Westview Press, Boulder, 1989.
- Handbook of Game Theory with economic applications, Vol 1-3, Elsevier, Amsterdam (coedited with S. Hart).
- Repeated Games with Incomplete Information, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995 (with M. Maschler).
- Collected Papers, Vol 1-2, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000.
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