Episode 19 - Noble Prize Laureate Prof. Robert J. Aumann Talks Game Theory

Two Nice Jewish Boys

Eytan and Naor

Society & Culture

1.7 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Nobel Laureate Professor Robert John Aumann talks game theory, a bit of politics and much more with 2NJB. Listen, like and share!

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0:00.0	Live from Tel Aviv, two nice Jewish boys, Aitzid Weinstein and Na'Or Minninger.
0:14.4	Hello Aiton.
0:15.9	Hello, Naur.
0:17.3	How are you?
0:17.9	I'm doing good, I'm doing good.
0:20.3	I'm excited. Why are you excited? Because we're, I'm doing good. I'm excited.
0:21.6	Why are you excited?
0:22.3	Because we're sitting here with Professor Israel Alman.
0:25.5	That's true.
0:26.4	Today we are joined by Dr. Israel Alman, who's a mathematician, an economist, and a game
0:32.7	theorist.
0:33.7	He's a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where we are right now.
0:40.8	He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005 for his work on conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis.
0:50.9	And I want to...
0:52.0	Chag Smech, Professor.
0:52.5	How are you?
0:53.7	Chag Semeh, Fah you have a do you have a favorite game
1:02.3	I like chess I don't play it very well but it's a good game yeah do you find that you can apply the theories to chess?
1:14.6	There is something that you can apply to chess.
1:19.6	Game theory applies to chess.
1:22.6	And what it says is this.
1:24.6	It says something which is not entirely obvious and it is this either white can force a win
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