Ruma Falk | |
Native Name: | רומה פלק |
Native Name Lang: | he |
Birth Name: | Oren-Aharonovich |
Birth Date: | 1932 |
Birth Place: | Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
Fields: | Psychology, Philosophy of Mathematics |
Workplaces: | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Alma Mater: | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Doctoral Advisor: | Amos Tversky |
Known For: | Probability theory, human understanding of probability and statistics |
Awards: | George Pólya Award (1984) |
Ruma Falk (Hebrew: רומה פלק, née Oren-Aharonovich, 1932–2020) was an Israeli psychologist and philosopher of mathematics known for her work on probability theory and human understanding of probability and statistics.
Falk was born in Jerusalem, and educated at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She completed her PhD on the perception of chance at the Hebrew University in 1975 under the supervision of Amos Tversky, and became a professor there. She was married to Raphael Falk, a geneticist and historian of science.
Falk won the George Pólya Award of the Mathematical Association of America with Maya Bar-Hillel in 1984 for their joint work on probability. She died on August 15, 2020.[1]
Falk was the author of books including:
She also created a board game, ברירה וסיכוי (Choice and Chance).
Her other publications include: