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Robert Aumann

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Robert John Aumann (Hebrew name: ישראל אומן, Yisrael Aumann; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Aumann has received more than 405,286 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Aumann is the 158th most popular mathematician (down from 141st in 2019), the 950th most popular biography from Germany (down from 862nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Mathematician.

Robert Aumann is most famous for his work in game theory. He is the co-winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Robert Aumann ranks 158 out of 1,004. Before him are Scipione del Ferro, Robert Grosseteste, Michel Rolle, Vladimir Arnold, Arthur Cayley, and Menelaus of Alexandria. After him are Giambattista della Porta, Simplicius of Cilicia, Wacław Sierpiński, Alonzo Church, André Weil, and James Joseph Sylvester.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Robert Aumann ranks 66. Before him are Jesús Franco, Buck Henry, Reinhard Selten, Mary Quant, Joanne Woodward, and Choe Yong-rim. After him are Stanley Miller, Gena Rowlands, Ivan Silayev, Magdalena Abakanowicz, David Dacko, and Chinua Achebe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Robert Aumann ranks 950 out of 7,253. Before him are Dorothea of Brandenburg (1430), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778), Horst Buchholz (1933), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699), and Michael Ballack (1976). After him are Edith Frank (1900), Margot Frank (1926), Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636), Kurt Eisner (1867), Günther Rall (1918), and Ernst vom Rath (1909).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Robert Aumann ranks 22. Before him are Christopher Clavius (1538), Hermann Weyl (1885), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Hermann of Reichenau (1013), Andrew Wiles (1953), and Johannes Trithemius (1462). After him are Ernst Zermelo (1871), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Constantin Carathéodory (1873), Thomas Abbt (1738), Maria Reiche (1903), and Eduard Heine (1821).

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