Abraham Neyman

Abraham Neyman was born in 1949 in Israel

Abraham Neyman was born in Israel on June 14, 1949. In 1966 he won the Israeli under 20 chess championship.

He studied mathematics at the Hebrew University, earning a BSc in 1970 and an MSc in 1972 under Joram Lindenstrauss. He completed his PhD on values of games with a continuum of players under Robert Aumann in 1977. The thesis won the Abraham Urbach prize in 1977 and the Aharon Katzir prize in 1979.

He has been a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University since 1982 and chaired its institute of mathematics from 1992 to 1994. He joined the Center for the Study of Rationality when it opened in 1991 and held positions at Stony Brook University from 1985 to 2001. He supervised 12 PhD students and served on the editorial boards of several game theory journals.

His research covers stochastic games, repeated games and the Shapley value. With Jean-Francois Mertens he proved that zero-sum undiscounted stochastic games have a uniform value. He also showed that bounded memory can support cooperation in a finitely repeated prisoner's dilemma.

He became a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1989 and led the Israeli chapter of the Game Theory Society from 2014 to 2018. A conference in his honor took place in 2015, and a journal issue was dedicated to him in 2016.