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Robert Aumann
Mathematician

Robert Aumann

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Game-theoretic analysis of repeated interaction

Repeated games · Correlated equilibrium

Born
8 June 1930
Birthplace
Frankfurt

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Robert Aumann

Robert Aumann used mathematics to investigate cooperation, conflict and shared knowledge. His research on repeated games helped explain how relationships can change when participants expect to encounter one another again.

Early life

Education and migration

His family left Germany for the United States in 1938. He studied at City College and completed a mathematics doctorate at MIT.

Career

  1. 1956

    Hebrew University

    Joined its mathematics faculty.

  2. 2005

    Economics prize

    Shared the Nobel Memorial Prize with Thomas Schelling.

Selected work

Repeated games

Studied strategic behaviour across continuing interactions.

Correlated equilibrium

Introduced a framework allowing players’ choices to be linked through shared signals.

Beyond work

Family

He and his first wife Esther had five children. The neurologist Oliver Sacks was his cousin.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

Photo: Kobi Kalmanivich for The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.