Robert Auman

Yisrael Robert Aumann, an Israeli mathematician, who, along with Thomas Schelling, won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2005. He got this award for his work on game-theory analysis.

Personal and career profiles

Robert Auman was born on 8th June, 1930 and has been one of the leading personalities in the field of mathematics. Aumann entered into the field of economics through cooperative game theory. He is better known for his theory of core equivalence in a "continuum" economy.

Education

1950: He attained B.S. in Mathematics from City College of New York

1952: He became the S.M., Mathematics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1955: He was awarded Ph.D. in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Academic profiles

1956: Robert Auman was engaged with the department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1958: He became the Lecturer and in 1961, he became the Senior Lecturer

1960-1961: Robert Auman was the Research Associate in Econometric Research Program in Princeton University

1964-1965: During this period, Robert Anuman was working as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Statistics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics in Yale University

1969-1993: During this period, he worked as a part-time teacher in the Department of Statistics, Tel Aviv University

1971, 1985-1986: Robert Auman worked as a Visiting Research Professor of Economics at University of California at Berkeley

1972, 1978, 1984: Worked as Visiting Professor in Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Universite Catholique de Louvain.

1975-1976, 1980-1981: Robert Auman was the Visiting Professor of Economics at Stanford University.

1979-1980: Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University.

1984: He became the member of Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at University of Minnesota.

1985-1986: During this period, he was the member of Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley.

1986-1989, 1991-2007: During this period, Robert Auman worked as a part-time Professor in Center for Game Theory and Economics Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook.

1989: He became the Visiting Scholar in Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University

Since 1991 he is a Member, Center for the Study of Rationality at The Hebrew University

1999-2000: Nemmers Professor of Economics, Northwestern University.

Honors and Awards

Robert Auman has got several awards, which are enlisted (in chronological order) as below:

1983: He got Harvey Prize in Science and Technology
1994: Robert Auman achieved Israel Prize for Economical Research
1998: He received Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics from Northwestern University
2002: Robert Auman got Emet Prize for economics
2005: Awarded Nobel Prize with Thomas Schelling
2006: Builder of Jerusalem Award

Theories propounded

The most important work done by Auman is the principal of repeated games, which specify the situations where players encounter the same situation over and over again. People will also remember for his work on concept of corelated equilibrium in game theory.

Publications

Some of the important publications include:

1974(with L. S. Shapley) : Values of Non-Atomic Games, Princeton University Press, Princeton

1981(with Y. Tauman and S. Zamir):Game Theory (in Hebrew), Everyman's University, Tel Aviv, Vol 1,Vol 2.

1989 ( with S. Hart):Lectures on Game Theory, Underground Classics in Economics, Westview Press, Boulder

1995 (with M. Maschler): Handbook of Game Theory with economic applications, Vol 1-3, Elsevier, Amsterdam

1995: Repeated Games with Incomplete Information, MIT Press, Cambridge

2000: Collected Papers, Vol 1-2, MIT Press, Cambridge