Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician and game theorist, born in Frankfurt-on-the-Main on 8 June 1930 to an orthodox Jewish family. The family emigrated to New York in 1938 because of Nazi persecution, and he studied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in 1955. He moved to Jerusalem in 1956 as a member of the mathematics faculty at the Hebrew University. He shared the 2005 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for having enhanced understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis, notably his theory of repeated games.
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1. Nobel Prize Outreach: Robert J. Aumann Facts
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He had a broad education, with a special interest in mathematics and entered the MIT in Boston for graduate studies.
In Branch: Game Theory, Work
Robert Aumann was awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences for his theory of repeated games, which enhances our understanding of the prerequisites for cooperation.
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The theorem was proved by Robert Aumann in his 1976 paper "Agreeing to Disagree", which also introduced the formal, set-theoretic definition of common knowledge.
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