Robert Aumann,
game theorist, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics today. Before
the University of Chicago claims him as one of their own, I want to draw attention to
Professor Aumann's deep ties to FIU, and to the economics department in
particular.
In 1965 Aumann was a visiting
professor at Yale, exactly 25 years before Costas Syropoulos, who used to work
here at FIU, graduated from the very same institution.
Our very own game theorist, Jesse
Bull, has read almost everything Aumann has written, except for the papers that
weren't on the required reading list.
Aumann has also held jobs at
Berkeley, Stanford, Tel Aviv, Minnesota, and Northwestern. By an amazing
coincidence, these are all places where not one of our department has ever
worked.
Since 1996, Aumann has been a
Fellow of the Econometric Society. I was for a few years a member of the
very same society, although I lapsed in my subscription.
Aumann worked for Bell Telephone
Laboratories in 1956, and this is the very same company that provides my
phone service.
Clearly, not only can the University of Chicago claim him as one of their
own; he is one of ours too!
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