Michael Maschler

Michael Maschler was born in 1927 in Jerusalem

Michael Bahir Maschler was born in Jerusalem on July 22, 1927. He married Hanna, and they had 4 children: Amir, Gideon, Yael and Dorit.

He studied mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and taught math at the university's high school while studying. His first scientific paper appeared in 1952, and he earned a doctorate in mathematics in 1956.

He joined the mathematics department as a lecturer and studied game theory with Robert Aumann. The two spent 1961 to 1963 at Princeton University and advised the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1967 and 1968. Maschler worked on cooperative games and laid foundations for repeated games with incomplete information.

In the early 1970s he shaped math teaching at the Ministry of Education with Shimshon Amitsur and founded the Israeli Center for Science Teaching. He wrote algebra textbooks for junior high school students. His curriculum, submitted in 1976, was not approved, but parts of it entered other programs.

He became professor emeritus at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics and a member of the Center for the Study of Rationality. He died on July 20, 2008. In 2012 a game theory student prize was named after him.