Robert J. Aumann

ThinkersBorn 1930Mathematician and game theorist

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An Israeli American game theorist who shared the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for work on conflict and cooperation through game theory. His 1959 paper gave an early formal statement of how cooperation can be sustained in infinitely repeated games, a result of the family later called folk theorems.

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