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John Harsanyi
John Charles Harsanyi (May 29, 1920 - August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American business and economics professor who contributed to the study of game theory in mathematics by developing the analysis of games of incomplete information.
For his work, he was a co-recipient of the 1994 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Harsanyi was born in Budapest, Hungary and educated at the University of Budapest (today: Eötvös Loránd University). He died in 2000 after a longtime professorship at the University of California, Berkeley.
External links
- Dr. Harsanyi's autobiography from the Nobel website
- News article remembering Dr. Harsanyi's life and career
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