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    Robert Aumann

    Israeli-American mathematician

    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]

    Early life and education

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    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.[2]

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    Aumann, Robert J. 1930–

    (Robert John Aumann)

    PERSONAL: Born June 8, 1930, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; emigrated to the United States, 1938, emigrated to Israel, 1956; son of Siegmund and Miriam (Landau) Aumann; married Esther Schlesinger, April 21, 1955 (deceased); children: Shlomo (deceased), Tamar, Yehonatan, Miriam, Noga Judith. Education: City College of New York, B.S., 1950; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.M., 1952, Ph.D., 1955. Religion: Jewish. Hobbies and other interests: Skiing, mountain climbing.

    ADDRESSES: Office—Center for the Study of Rationality, The Hebrew University, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel.

    CAREER: Mathematician, educator, and writer. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, research assistant, 1954–56, research associate, 1960–61; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, instructor, 1956–58, lecturer, 1958–61, senior lecturer, 1961–64, associate professor, 1964–68, professor of mathematics, 1968–2001, professor emeritus, 2001–; Tel Aviv Uni

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    Major Works of Robert J. Aumann

    • "Acceptable Points in General Cooperative n-Person Games", 1959, in Contributions to the Theory of Games IV, Annals of Math. Study
    • "Von Neumann-Morgenstern Solutions to Cooperative Games Without Side Payments" with B. Peleg, 1960, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.
    • "Acceptable Points in Games of Perfect Information", 1960, Pacific Journal of Mathematics
    • "Linearity of Unrestrictedly Transferable Utilities", 1960, Naval Research Logistics Quarterly
    • "Spaces of Measurable Transformations", 1960, Bulletin of AMS
    • "The Core of a Cooperative Game Without Side Payments", 1961, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
    • "Almost Strictly Competitive Games", 1961, Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
    • "Utility Theory Without the Completeness Axiom", 1962, Econometrica.
    • "A Definition of Subjective Probabil