Robert Aumann | |
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![]() Aumann in 2015 | |
Born | Robert John Aumann 8 June 1930 |
Nationality | Israeli, American |
Education | City College of New York (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) |
Academic career | |
Field | Mathematical economics Game theory |
Institution | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Stony Brook University |
Doctoral advisor | George Whitehead, Jr. |
Doctoral students | David Schmeidler Sergiu Hart Abraham Neyman Yair Tauman |
Awards | Nobel 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 | |
Thesis | Asphericity 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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