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Reinhard Selten
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German economist (1930-2016)
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Reinhard Selten was a German economist, mathematician, and university teacher born in Wrocław in 1930. He was educated at Goethe University Frankfurt and held positions at the Freie Universität Berlin, University of Bonn, Technische Universität Berlin, and Bielefeld University. His professional work focused on economics, experimental economics, mathematics, and game theory. He was a member of the International Academy of Sciences San Marino, the National Academy of Sciences, the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts, and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Selten received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel and the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia. He spoke Esperanto and German. He died in Poznań in 2016. His work is recognized in the Nobel Economics collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1994
“for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games”
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Reinhard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Wrocław
- Place of death
- Poznań
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Goethe University Frankfurt
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- Esperanto
- Image
- Reinhard Selten2.jpg
- Work location
- Bonn
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- Reinhard Selten
- date of birth
- 1930-10-05
- member of
- Econometric Society
- Erdős number
- 5
- date of death
- 2016-08-23
- name in native language
- Reinhard Selten
- birth name
- Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten ( German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈzɛltn̩] ; 5 October 1930 – 23 August 2016) was a German economist, who won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with John Harsanyi and John Nash). He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality and can be considered one of the founding fathers of experimental economics.
Biography
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