Robert Aumann was awarded (jointly with Thomas C Schelling) the 2005 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis". This book contains ten of his most important contributions to game theory, as selected by Eric Maskin, also a Nobel laureate.
Contents:
- Acceptable Points in General Cooperative n-Person Games
- A Definition of Subjective Probability
- Markets with a Continuum of Traders
- Subjectivity and Correlation in Randomized Strategies
- Values of Markets with a Continuum of Traders
- Agreeing to Disagree
- Correlated Equilibrium as an Expression of Bayesian Rationality
- Long-Term Competition — A Game-Theoretic Analysis
- Game-Theoretic Analysis of a Bankruptcy Problem from the Talmud
- Game Theoretic Aspects of Gradual Disarmament
Readership: For researchers and students in the fields of economics and game theory.
Robert Aumann was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1930, to a well-to-do orthodox Jewish family. Fleeing Nazi persecution, he emigrated to the United States with his family in 1938, settling in New York. In the process, his parents lost everything, but nevertheless gave their two children an excellent Jewish and general education. Aumann attended Yeshiva elementary and high schools, got a bachelor's degree from the City College of New York in 1950, and a PhD in mathematics from MIT in 1955.
He joined the mathematics department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1956, and has been there ever since. In 1990, he was among the founders of the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University, an interdisciplinary research center, centered on Game Theory, with members from over a dozen different departments, including Business, Economics, Psychology, Computer Science, Law, Mathematics, Ecology, Philosophy, and others.
Aumann is the author of over ninety scientific papers and six books, and has held visiting positions at Princeton, Yale, Berkeley, Louvain, Stanford, Stony Brook, and NYU. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences (USA), the British Academy, and the Israel Academy of Sciences; holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Chicago, Bonn, Louvain, City University of New York, Bar Ilan University, and Ben Gurion University of the Negev; and has received numerous prizes, including the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for 2005.
Aumann is married and had five children (the oldest was killed in combat in Lebanon in 1982). Also, he has twenty-one grandchildren, and twenty-eight great-grandchildren. When not working, he likes to hike, ski, cook, and study the Talmud.
