Robert Aumann
Overview
Israel
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i-American mathematician
Mathematician
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and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
United States National Academy of Sciences
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. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. He also holds a visiting position at Stony Brook University and is one of the founding members of the Center for Game Theory in Economics at Stony Brook.
Aumann received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2005 for his work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory
Game theory
Game theory is a mathematical method for analyzing calculated circumstances, such as in games, where a person’s success is based upon the choices of others...
analysis.