Michael Maschler Explained

Michael Bahir Maschler
Birth Date:	22 July 1927
Birth Place:	Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)
Death Place:	Jerusalem, Israel
Field:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alma Mater:	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doctoral Advisor:	Stefan Bergman (Stanford University) Michael Fekete (Hebrew University)
Doctoral Students:	Anna Sfard
Known For:	Game theory
Prizes:	Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (1995)

Michael Bahir Maschler (Hebrew: Hebrew: מיכאל בהיר משלר) (July 22, 1927  - July 20, 2008) was an Israeli mathematician well known for his contributions to the field of game theory. He was a professor in the Einstein Institute of Mathematics and the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. In 2012, the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society founded the Maschler Prize, an annual prize awarded to an outstanding research student in game theory and related topics in Israel.

Biography

Michael B. Maschler was born in Jerusalem on July 22, 1927.^[1]

Selected publications

For a complete list of English and Hebrew publications, see Michael Maschler: In Memoriam, above.

• "The Bargaining Set for Cooperative Games", with R.J. Aumann, 1964, in Advances in Game Theory
• "The Core of a Cooperative Game", with M. Davis, 1965, Naval Research Logistics Quarterly
• "Game-Theoretic Aspects of Gradual Disarmament", with R.J. Aumann, 1966, Mathematica
• "Some Thoughts on the Minimax Principle" with R.J. Aumann, 1972, Management Science
• "An Advantage of the Bargaining Set over the Core", 1976, JET
• "Geometric Properties of the Kernel, Nucleolus and Related Solution Concepts", with B. Peleg and L.S. Shapley, 1979, Mathematics of Operations Research
• "Superadditive Solution for the Nash bargaining Game", with M. Perles, 1981, IJGT
• "Game Theoretic Analysis of a Bankruptcy Problem from the Talmud", with R.J. Aumann, 1985, JET
• "The Consistent Shapley Value for Hyperplane Games", with G. Owen, 1989, IJGT
• "The Consistent Shapley Value for Games without Side Payments", with G. Owen, 1992, in Selten, editor, Rational Interaction
• "The Bargaining Set, Kernel and Nucleolus", 1992, in Aumann and Hart, editors, Handbook of Game Theory
• Repeated Games with Incomplete Information, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995, with R.J. Aumann
• Insights into Game Theory: An Alternative Mathematical Experience, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, with Ein-Ya Gura.^[2]

Sources

• Aumann . Robert J.. Gura. Ein-Ya. Hart. Sergiu . 2008. Michael Maschler: In Memoriam. Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Notes and References

1. Web site: en . Michael B. Maschler: Brief Biography . The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences . 2022-04-29.
2. Web site: en . Major Works of Michael Maschler . 2022-04-29.