Abraham Neyman is an Israeli mathematician and game theorist, Professor of Mathematics at the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality and the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
20 Facts About Abraham Neyman
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Abraham Neyman served as president of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society.
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Abraham Neyman has been a member of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University since its inception in 1991.
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Abraham Neyman has held positions and has been visiting scholar at Cornell University, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University, and Ohio State University.
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Abraham Neyman has served as the Game Theory Area Editor for the journal Mathematics of Operations Research and on the editorial board for Games and Economic Behavior and the International Journal of Game Theory.
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Abraham Neyman has been a fellow of the Econometric Society since 1989.
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Abraham Neyman gave the inaugural von-Neumann lecture at the 2008 Congress of the Game Theory Society as well as delivering it at the 2012 World Congress on behalf of the recently deceased Jean-Francois Mertens.
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Abraham Neyman has made numerous contributions to game theory, including to stochastic games, the Shapley value, and repeated games.
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Abraham Neyman co-edited, together with Sylvain Sorin, a comprehensive collection of works in the field of stochastic games.
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Abraham Neyman has made many contributions to the theory of repeated games.
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Abraham Neyman is one of the pioneers and a most notable leader of the study of repeated games under complexity constraints.
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Abraham Neyman's paper was followed by many others who started working on bounded memory games.
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Abraham Neyman's students continued to employ Neyman's entropy technique to achieve a better understanding of repeated games under complexity constraints.
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Abraham Neyman has made numerous fundamental contributions to the theory of the value.
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In subsequent work Abraham Neyman proved that many of the assumptions made in these works can be relaxed, while showing that others are essential.
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Abraham Neyman proved the diagonality of continuous values, which had many implications on further developments of the theory.
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Abraham Neyman has made contributions to other fields of mathematics, usually motivated by problems in game theory.
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Abraham Neyman previously served as director at Tradus.
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Abraham Neyman held a directorship at Gilat Satellite Networks.
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In 1999, Abraham Neyman co-founded Bidorbuy, the first online auction company to operate in India and in South Africa, and serves as the chairman of the board.