Haim Shapira

Haim Shapira was born in 1962 in Vilnius

Haim Shapira was born on May 5, 1962, in Vilnius, Lithuania. He immigrated to Israel in 1977.

He studied theoretical mathematics at Tel Aviv University and then earned a master's degree in probability and statistics there. In 1995 he received a doctorate in mathematics, with a thesis on the volunteer's dilemma supervised by Ilan Eshel. He later earned a second doctorate in science education, researching intuitions about infinity.

Shapira taught at Tel Aviv University and from 1996 at the College of Management Academic Studies in Rishon LeZion, where he is a senior lecturer. He also teaches in the mathematics department at Bar-Ilan University. He gives lectures to companies and the public on game theory and philosophy, often playing piano during them.

Since 2006 he has written books based on his lectures, on Alice in Wonderland, game theory, happiness, infinity, Ecclesiastes and philosophers such as Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. His books have been translated into several languages. He also arranged and played music for the soundtrack of John Wick: Chapter 2.