Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Robert Aumann
Born: June 8, 1930 (age 94)
Bio: Robert John Aumann 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.
Known for:
- Repeated Games with Incomplete Information (1995)
- Values of Non-Atomic Games (1969)
- Collected papers (2000)
- Lectures on game theory (1989)