Ehud Kalai
Ehud Kalai (* 7. December 1942 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli in the United States acting mathematician .
Ehud Kalai studied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 . He then went to Cornell University , where he received his doctorate in 1972 with the dissertation Cooperative Non-Side-Payment Games: Extensions of Side-Payment Game Solutions, Metrics, and Representative Functions under William Lucas . After a position as an assistant professor in Tel Aviv (1972-1975) he joined Northwestern University in Illinois , which he still belongs to today. There he is Professor of Decision and Game Theory at the Kellogg School of Management .
Kalai's field of work is game theory with applications in economics and social sciences . He is the founder and editor of Games and Economic Behavior , a major game theory journal, and a founding member of the Game Theory Society . Kalai is known from the theorem of Kalai and Smorodinsky , which is an alternative to Nash's negotiated solution.
In 2012, Kahai was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
The Kalai Prize is named in his honor .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ehud Kalai in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kalai, Ehud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |