ROBERT J. AUMANN
An economist and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics, along with Thomas Schelling, for his analysis of game theory in conflict and cooperation scenarios. Game theory is a type of applied math used in a number of disciplines to understand individuals' strategic behavior and is used to predict the actions of others.
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