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Sergiu Hart

Sergiu Hart is an Israeli mathematician and economist who works on game theory and economic theory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

born 1949Research in game theoryFounding the Center for RationalityIsrael Prize in Economics, 2018

Occupation: mathematician, economist, university teacher
Education: Tel Aviv University

Sergiu Hart was born in 1949 in Bucharest

Hart was born in 1949 in Bucharest, Romania. He immigrated to Israel in 1963.

He studied at Tel Aviv University, earning a B.Sc. in mathematics and statistics in 1970 and an M.Sc. in mathematics in 1971. Robert Aumann supervised both his master's thesis and his doctorate on cooperative game theory models of economic equilibrium.

He served in the IDF in Unit 8200 of the Intelligence Directorate. In 1975 he received the Israel Defense Prize.

He taught at Stanford University from 1976 to 1979 and at Tel Aviv University from 1979 to 1991, becoming a professor in 1985. In 1991 he joined the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Rationality until 1999. His research covers repeated games, adaptive dynamics, economic competition and fair distribution, and mechanism design.

He was President of the Game Theory Society from 2008 to 2010 and chaired the Humanities Division of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 2019 to 2025. He received the Israel Prize in 2018.

Sergiu Hart's life in 9 milestones

1963
Immigrated to Israel from Romania.
1975
Received the Israel Defense Prize.
1985
Became a professor at Tel Aviv University and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
1991
Joined the Hebrew University and founded its Center for the Study of Rationality.
1998
Received the Rothschild Prize.
2006
Elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
2008
Became President of the Game Theory Society.
2018
Received the Israel Prize in Economics and Statistics.
2025
Elected International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.