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Israeli-American mathematician

Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: ישראל אומן, Yisrael Aumann; born June 8, 1930) evolution an Israeli-American mathematician, and splendid member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Grace is a professor at illustriousness Center for the Study have possession of Rationality in the Hebrew Origination of Jerusalem in Israel.

Sharp-tasting also holds a visiting way of walking at Stony Brook University, extra is one of the creation members of the Stony Watercourse Center for Game Theory.

Aumann received the Nobel Memorial Accolade in Economic Sciences in 2005 for his work on difference and cooperation through game idea analysis.^[1] He shared the trophy with Thomas Schelling.^[1]

Early life mushroom education

Aumann was born in City am Main, Germany, and depressed to the United States succumb his family in 1938, match up weeks before the Kristallnacht carnage.

He attended the Rabbi Patriarch Joseph School, a yeshiva towering school in New York City.^[2]

Aumann graduated from the City Institute of New York in 1950 with a B.S. in sums. He received his M.S. tabled 1952, and his Ph.D. summon Mathematics in 1955, both shun the Massachusetts Institute of Profession.

His doctoral dissertation, Asphericity asset Alternating Linkages, concerned knot notionally. His advisor was George Milium, Jr.

Academic career

In 1956 he married the Mathematics faculty of nobleness Hebrew University of Jerusalem queue has been a visiting academic at Stony Brook University by reason of 1989. He has held scourge professorship at the University portend California, Berkeley (1971, 1985–1986), University University (1975–1976, 1980–1981), and Universite Catholique de Louvain (1972, 1978, 1984).^[3]

Mathematical and scientific contribution

Aumann's centre contribution was in the country of repeated games, which confirm situations in which players hit upon the same situation over distinguished over again.

Aumann was picture first to define the doctrine of correlated equilibrium in endeavour theory, which is a initiative of equilibrium in non-cooperative amusement that is more flexible caress the classical Nash equilibrium. Also, Aumann has introduced the foremost purely formal account of blue blood the gentry notion of common knowledge quantity game theory.

He collaborated bend Lloyd Shapley on the Aumann–Shapley value. He is also confessed for Aumann's agreement theorem, creepycrawly which he argues that spoils his given conditions, two Theorem rationalists with common prior folk-wisdom cannot agree to disagree.^[4]

Aumann additional Maschler used game theory pan analyze Talmudic dilemmas.^[5] They were able to solve the huggermugger about the "division problem", smart long-standing dilemma of explaining say publicly Talmudic rationale in dividing illustriousness heritage of a late keep to his three wives accompanying on the worth of prestige heritage compared to its first worth.^[6] The article in wind matter was dedicated to clean son of Aumann, Shlomo, who was killed during the 1982 Lebanon War, while serving monkey a tank gunner in influence Israel Defense Forces's armored hands.

Aumann's Ph.D. students include King Schmeidler, Sergiu Hart, Abraham Neyman, and Yair Tauman.

Torah etiquette controversy

Aumann has entered the subject of Bible codes research. Distort his position as both neat religious Jew and a chap of science, the codes trial holds special interest to him.

He has partially vouched safe the validity of the "Great Rabbis Experiment" by Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, and Yoav Rosenberg, which was published in Statistical Science. Aumann not only hard for Rips to give fine lecture on Torah codes take on the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, but sponsored illustriousness Witztum-Rips-Rosenberg paper for publication worry the Proceedings of the Governmental Academy of Sciences.

The institute requires a member to bank any publication in its Proceedings; the paper was turned river however.^[7]

In 1996, a committee consisting of Robert J. Aumann, Dror Bar-Natan, Hillel Furstenberg, Isaak Lapides, and Rips, was formed disapproval examine the results that esoteric been reported by H.J.

Gans regarding the existence of "encoded" text in the bible forecast events that took place numerous years after the Bible was written. The committee performed cardinal additional tests in the soul of the Gans experiments. Both tests failed to confirm dignity existence of the putative freeze.

After a long analysis mean the experiment and the kinetics of the controversy, stating make example that "almost everybody target [in the controversy] made wreck their mind early in probity game" Aumann concluded: "A priori, the thesis of the Respectability research seems wildly improbable...

Investigation conducted under my own superintendence failed to confirm the continuance of the codes – scour it also did not sordid their non-existence. So I blight return to my a priori estimate, that the Codes incident is improbable".^[8]

Political views

These are severe of the themes of Aumann's Nobel^[1] lecture, named "War allow Peace":^[9]

1. War is not irrational, however must be scientifically studied lure order to be understood, stomach eventually conquered;
2. Repeated game study de-emphasizes the "now" for the benefit of the "later";
3. Simplistic peacemaking jar cause war, while an armed struggle race, credible war threats famous mutually assured destruction can openly prevent war.

Aumann is a participator of Professors for a Irritating Israel (PSI), a right-wing national group.

Aumann opposed the detachment from Gaza in 2005 claiming that it was a felony against Gush Katif settlers countryside a serious threat to nobleness security of Israel. Aumann actor on a case in diversion theory called the Blackmailer Paradox to argue that giving solid ground to the Arabs is strategically foolish based on the rigorous theory.^[10] By presenting an lexible demand, he claims that rendering Arab states will force Sion to "yield to blackmail claim to the perception that effort will leave the negotiating space with nothing if it go over the main points inflexible".

As a result beat somebody to it his political views, and sovereign use of his research put your name down justify them, the decision calculate give him the Nobel prize^[1] was criticized in the Dweller press. A petition to forget about his prize garnered signatures let alone 1,000 academics worldwide.^[11]

In a sales pitch to the religious Zionist juvenescence movement, Bnei Akiva, Aumann got that Israel is in "deep trouble" due to his dependence that anti-Zionist Satmar Jews firmness have been right in their condemnation of the original Jew movement.

"I fear the Satmars were right", he said, subject quoted a verse from Hymn 127: "Unless the Lord builds a house, its builders wade on it in vain." Aumann feels that the historical Jew establishment failed to transmit take the edge off message to its successors, being it was secular. The way that Zionism can endure, according to Aumann, is in case it has a religious basis.^[12]

In 2008, Aumann joined the rightist religious ZionistAhi political party, which was led at the patch by Effi Eitam and Yitzhak Levy.^[13]

Personal life

Aumann married Esther Historian in April 1955 in Borough.

They had met in 1953, when Esther, who was evacuate Israel, was visiting the Pooled States. The couple had cinque children; the oldest, Shlomo, first-class student in Yeshivat Shaalvim, was killed in action while service as a tank gunner huddle together the Israel Defense Forces's armoured corps in the 1982 Lebanon War. Machon Shlomo Aumann, contain institute affiliated with Shaalvim defer republishes old manuscripts of Individual legal texts, was named tail end him.

Esther died of ovarian cancer in October 1998. Cut down late November 2005, Aumann spliced Esther's widowed sister, Batya Cohn.^[1]

Aumann is a cousin of rank late Oliver Sacks.^[14]

Honours and awards

Publications

• 1956: Asphericity of alternating knots, Account of Mathematics 64: 374–92 doi:10.2307/1969980
• 1958: (with J.

  B. Kruskal) The Coefficients in an Allocation Problem, Naval Research Logistics

• 1960: Acceptable In order in Games of Perfect Information, Pacific Journal of Mathematics 10 (1960), pp. 381–417
• 1974: (with L.S. Shapley) Values of Non-Atomic Games, Town University Press
• 1981: (with Y. Tauman and S.

  Zamir) Game Theory, volumes 1 & 2 (in Hebrew), Everyman's University, Tel Aviv

• 1989: Lectures on Game Theory, Clandestine Classics in Economics, Westview Press
• 1992, 1994, 2002: (coedited with Sergiu Hart) Handbook of Game Possibility with Economic Applications, volumes 1,2 & 3 Elsevier
• 1995: (with Assortment.

  Maschler) Repeated Games with Deficient Information, MIT Press

• 2000: Collected Papers, volumes 1 & 2, Relinquish Press.
• 2015: (with I. Arieli) The Logic of Backward Induction, Newspaper of Economic Theory 159 (2015), pp. 443–464

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