Biography
Robert Aumann — economist with roots in the Russian Empire
Robert Aumann is an Israeli-American economist and mathematician born in Frankfurt in 1930. He shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis, notably on repeated games. He joined the mathematics faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1956.
Russian Connection
Tracing the roots — Frankfurt (Germany)
Born on 8 June 1930 in Frankfurt into an Orthodox Jewish family, the son of Moses Aumann. In 1938, two weeks before Kristallnacht, the family left Germany for the United States; he later settled in Israel.
Born into an Orthodox Jewish family.
Family Tree
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Robert Aumann🇮🇱 Israel
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Parents
Moses Aumann
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Origin
Frankfurt (Germany)🇷🇺 Russian Empire
Historical context
Russian Empire · c. 1721–1917
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Frankfurt (Germany). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
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Key Achievements
A career defined by ambition
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Nobel Prize in Economics (2005) — for his work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis
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Theory of repeated games
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Joined the mathematics faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1956)
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Harvey Prize (1993), Israel Prize (1994), EMET Prize (2002), John von Neumann Theory Prize (2005)
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Member of the US National Academy of Sciences
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