1. Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
15 Facts About Robert Aumann
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Robert Aumann is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Robert Aumann holds a visiting position at Stony Brook University, and is one of the founding members of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory.
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Robert Aumann was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and fled to the United States with his family in 1938, two weeks before the Kristallnacht pogrom.
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Robert Aumann attended the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School, a yeshiva high school in New York City.
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Robert Aumann has held visiting professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and Universite Catholique de Louvain.
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Robert Aumann was the first to define the concept of correlated equilibrium in game theory, which is a type of equilibrium in non-cooperative games that is more flexible than the classical Nash equilibrium.
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Furthermore, Robert Aumann has introduced the first purely formal account of the notion of common knowledge in game theory.
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Robert Aumann is known for Aumann's agreement theorem, in which he argues that under his given conditions, two Bayesian rationalists with common prior beliefs cannot agree to disagree.
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Robert Aumann has partially vouched for the validity of the "Great Rabbis Experiment" by Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, and Yoav Rosenberg, which was published in Statistical Science.
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Robert Aumann is a member of Professors for a Strong Israel, a right-wing political group.
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Robert Aumann opposed the disengagement from Gaza in 2005 claiming that it was a crime against Gush Katif settlers and a serious threat to the security of Israel.
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The only way that Zionism can survive, according to Robert Aumann, is if it has a religious basis.
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In 2008, Robert Aumann joined the right-wing religious Zionist Ahi political party, which was led at the time by Effi Eitam and Yitzhak Levy.
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In late November 2005, Robert Aumann married Esther's widowed sister, Batya Cohn.