My first contact with game theory was a popular article in Fortune Magazine which I read in my last high school year. Prof. Reinhard Selten – Nobelpremiito por ekonomio 1994 intervjuata de Rainer Kurz. Professor Reinhard Selten, geboren am 5. Selten started his research in game theory in the mid 1950s. Alfreda Nobla w dziedzinie ekonomii w 1994 roku. Sat. My father did not belong to any religious community and my mother was a protestant. Much later as a young man I left the protestant church and became unattached to any religion again. In the twelve years I spent at Bielefeld, I began a close cooperation with Werner Guth, who in some sense is one of my students, even if we never held positions at the same university. I had listened to lectures of the gestalt psychologist Edwin Rausch, who was a careful experimenter, and I had participated in psychological experiments as a subject. Somewhat later I saw the announcement of a student seminar for economists on game theory, headed by Professor Ewald Burger who taught advanced mathematical courses but also mathematics for economists. Eric van Damme needed very little advise and is now a well known game theorist. It was not easy for me to live as a half-Jewish boy under the Hitler regime. Prof. Dr. Armin Falk (Direktor) Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kube (stv. Nevertheless she does many things in the house, even if everything takes much longer than it used to. Reinhard Selten Institute For information on our research areas and their members, click here . found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 2, 2016 (Reinhard Selten, a German economist and mathematician who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for his work on game theory, died Aug. 23 [2016] in Poznan, Poland; he was 85; the University of Bonn, where he had taught since 1984, announced the death; Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten was born on Oct. 5, 1930, in Breslau, a German city before … I studied mathematics at the university of Frankfurt from 1951 to 1957. 2. My attempts to learn some psychology while I studied mathematics had made me acquainted to experimental techniques. Before I came into contact with theoretical problems in botany I hardly could distinguish any flower from any other one. He twice came to Bielefeld for a year and I often visited Berkeley for short periods of one or two months. My years at the University of Bielefeld were a productive time. Professor Reinhard SELTEN Currently Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Bonn, Germany, Professor Reinhard Selten is an outstanding economist who has won the Nobel Prize in Economics 1994. Prof. Reinhard SELTEN was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994 for contributions to game theory. At first I was supposed to apply decision theory to the theory of the firm, but soon I became involved in economic laboratory experimentation. My father had built up his business in spite of the fact that he became blind at young years and had only three years of school education. are commended "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory He also gave me financial support for staying several weeks longer at Princeton after the game theory conference. in economics, political sciences and biology. My situation as a member of an officially despised minority forced me to pay close attention to political matters very early in my life. Berkeley, USA, from 1967 to 1968. My first publication was a journal article with the title “Ein Oligopolexperiment” (an oligopoly experiment) written together with Heinz Sauermann and published in 1959. Simon and his associates. In the late 50s – I do not remember the year – he had given a talk at Frankfurt and my remarks in the subsequent discussion must have impressed him. Professor Selten was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les On my frequent visits to Berkeley I also had a cooperation with Tom Marschak which resulted in a book on multiproduct pricing published in 1974. and research programmes. in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, in 1957 and was later awarded a Ph.D. by joined the University of Bonn as Professor of Economics. He is currently After the second world war Breslau became Polish and the original German population was almost completely replaced by a Polish one. Game theory was still a small field. Erstellt am: 8. This was the beginning of my long cooperation with John C. Harsanyi. November 2006. After the war, he attended high school in Melsungen from 1947–51, and then studied mathematics at Frankfurt from 1951–57. The problem of bounded rationality has occupied my mind for a long time but unfortunately with less success than I had hoped for. Die Präsidentin der Goethe-Universität, Prof. Birgitta Wolff, sagte: „Reinhard Selten war ein Wissenschaftspionier. Probably we had this disease for some time without knowing it. Direktor) Dr. Holger Gerhardt (Laborleiter) Dr. Heike Hennig-Schmidt Ehemalige Mitarbeiter und Gäste Prof. Dr. Reinhard Selten (Gründungsdirektor) Über Experimente. I also did experimental work on bargaining under incomplete information together with Austin Hoggatt and his younger associates. They More and more I came to the conclusion that purely speculative approaches like that of our paper of 1962 are of limited value. - Economista tedesco (Breslavia 1930 - Posen 2016), prof. alle univ. "Reinhard Selten was one of the most important scientists in Germany with an international reputation", says rector Prof. Dr. Michael Hoch. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wöchentlich bringen wir neue Porträts, publizieren redaktionell überarbeitete Texte und aktualisieren darüberhinaus Hunderte von Biographien. After I had received my master’s degree in 1957, I was hired by Professor Heinz Sauermann, an economist at the University of Frankfurt am Main, who employed me for ten years in various assistant positions. Reinhard Selten, Thorsten Chmura, and Sebastian J. Goerg (2011) Stationary Concepts for Ex- perimental 2×2 Games: A Reply, The American Economic Review, Vol. Therefore in a paper published in 1975, I defined a refined notion of perfectness, now often referred to as trembling hand perfectness. Reinhard Selten studierte an der Universität zu Frankfurt am Main Mathematik (Diplom 1957, Promotion 1961 und Habilitation 1968). In the academic year of 1967/68 I was visiting full professor at the business school of the University of California, Berkeley. Talks given there brought me into contact with biologists who made me aware of applications of game theory to biology. Selten obtained a Master's Degree in Mathematics, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University by the Laureate. His master’s thesis was on cooperative game theory. In Germany the Ph. It was my task to do research funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the German counterpart of the National Science Foundation. Eventually a small institute with only three professors was established. The concentration on game theory gave us a chance to get some international reputation. He visited CUHK as Wei Lun Visiting Professor For this purpose one presents a habilitation thesis, often a monography of an area of research. Selten, Prof. Dr. Reinhard. Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Bonn. It took us about 18 years to construct a reasonable general theory of equilibrium selection in games. (1974), General Equilibrium with Price-Making Firms (with Thomas Marschak), 1. He was one of the first to propagate Keynesianism in Germany. (1970), Preispolitik der Mehrproduktenunternehmung in der statischen Theorie, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer- Verlag. Die Biographie von Reinhard Selten ist nur eine von über 40.000, die in unseren biographischen Datenbanken Personen, Sport und Pop verfügbar sind. My assistent Gerald Uhlich who had done important experimental work on coalition bargaining left the university after his Ph.D. and became the second man in a furniture textile factory. What finally turned me away from astronomy was that I became more and more involved in game theory and economics. 5 października 1930 we Wrocławiu, zm. I find it very interesting to cooperate with scientists in different fields who have little mathematical training but much substantial knowledge. In addition to this, one is expected to work towards a “habilitation”. Seit 2019 ist er Principal Investigator in den Forschungsbereichen Market & Values und Organizational Design & Behavior in ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy, welches als Exzellenzcluster der deutschen Exzellenzstrategie unter dem Dach des Reinhard-Selten-Instituts gefördert wird. Prix Nobel/ Nobel Lectures/The Nobel Prizes. In 1970 my habilitation thesis was published as a book. Peter Hammerstein is now a well established theoretical biologist. Spenden Sie auf traueranzeigen.tt.com Trost mit einer Beileidsbekundung oder einer Trauerkerze. At that time I did not suspect that it often would be quoted, almost exclusively for the definition of subgame perfectness. Moreover her eyesight has become very bad. A student of mine, Rolf Stoecker, who was a promising young experimentalist left me after his Ph.D., joined an insurance company and became its chief executive after 5 years. In 1994, the economist received the Nobel Prize in economics – as the first and only German so far. Reinhard Selten - Prize Lecture: Multistage Game Models and Delay Supergames, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994. Shortly afterwards Oskar Morgenstern made it possible for me to participate in a game theory conference at Princeton. �@�@Professor won the Nobel Prize in Economics 1994. At the University of Bielefeld, cross fertilization between different fields is favored by the existence of a unique institution, the center for interdisciplinary research. The cooperation of an international group of participants with backgrounds in economics, biology, mathematics, political science, psychology, and philosophy finally resulted in four volumes on “game equilibrium models” published in 1991. The Nobel Prizes 1994, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1995. Reinhard Tietz, Volker Haselbarth, Otwin Becker, Klaus Schuster and others belonged to it for longer or shorter periods. Selten was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) in 1930. Der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler erhielt 1994 als bislang einziger Deutscher den Nobelpreis für Ökonomie. The positions were filled by Joachim Rosenmuller, Wulf Albers, and myself. I had to learn to trust my own judgment rather than official propaganda or public opinion. One of my students, Jon-ren-Chen, a Taiwanese who was my assistent for many years, has never worked on game theory. One of my contributions to this field is the investigation of evolutionary stability in extensive games. Therefore it seemed natural to me to try an experimental approach to oligopoly. When we began to do experimental economics at Frankfurt, such a field had not yet existed. My continuing interest in politics and public affairs was one of the reasons why I began to be interested in economics in my last high school years. There our experiments were run. I am grateful to Avi Shmida, not only for his scientific cooperation but also for another reason. The only career open to me was that of an unskilled worker. Oktober 1930 in Breslau Studium: 1951 bis 1957 Universität Frankfurt (Diplom in Mathematik) Dissertation: "Bewertung von n-Personenspielen", Frankfurt 1961 During these walks I occupied my mind with problems of elementary geometry and algebra. of non-cooperative games". In my case the habilitation thesis was a monography on multiproduct pricing. What is the right date? When I was 14 I had to leave high school and the opportunity to learn a trade was denied to me. return to homepage, return From that time on I developed a strong interest in biological game theory. irka 1900 el inter la entute 37000 studentoj studas e la fakultato de ekonomiaj sciencoj. This work made me familiar with the extensive form, in a time when very little work on extensive games was done. We both belong to the Esperanto movement and this is how we met. Who died at the age of 85 on 23 August 2016 in Poznan (Poland). In 1965, I was invited to a game theory workshop at Jerusalem which lasted for three weeks and had only 17 participants, but among them all the important researchers in game theory, with few exceptions. I am grateful to the Natural Science Faculty of Frankfurt University for the decision to permit mathematical economics as a minor for the master’s degree in order to enable me to be the first one to take this choice. 23 sierpnia 2016 w Poznaniu ) – niemiecki ekonomista, laureat Nagrody Banku Szwecji im. Reinhard Selten, Wegbereiter der Spieltheorie in Deutschland, einziger deutscher Nobelpreisträger für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, von 1972 bis 1984 Professor der Universität Bielefeld und langjähriger wissenschaftlicher Berater des Zentrums für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), ist, wie erst jetzt bekannt wurde, am 23. In 1969, he was appointed Chair of Unfortunately the results of our research have never been formally published. I had completed my habilitation thesis shortly before I left to Berkeley and was habilitated when I came back. The group did not produce anything of practical value for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, but nevertheless it was very successful because important theoretical advances, e.g. A young mathematician, Peter Hammerstein, who had a junior position as a statistical advisor in the biology department made me accquainted with the notion of evolutionary stability. Moreover I found myself in opposition to the political views shared by the vast majority of the population. My master’s thesis and later my Ph.D. thesis had the aim of axiomatizing a value for e-person games in extensive form. to previous page In 1959, I married Elisabeth Langreiner, who for all the years since then helped me to become the person I am now. Simon‘s seminal papers on bounded rationality and was immediately convinced by his arguments. One of the reasons was that I went to many lectures which had nothing to do with my study of mathematics. After the Princeton conference in 1961, I visited Pittsburgh for two days in order to establish contacts with H.A. „Reinhard Selten war einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Wissenschaftler mit höchster internationaler Reputation“, sagt Unirektor Prof. Dr. Michael Hoch. Fortunately the referees of Sauermann’s research proposals approved of this new research direction. (Bild: Imago) Das Rampenlicht war Reinhard Selten nicht geheuer. I owe much to his guidance and to his patient advise. In the basement of Barrows Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, Austin Hoggatt had built up the first computerized laboratory for experimental economics. As as consequence of diabetes my wife lost both legs up to the knee. Reinhard Selten gestorben: Wissenschaftler durch und durch. Around 1958, I became aware of H.A. I was attracted by plans to create a big Institute of Mathematical Economics. Er verfolgte damals vollkommen neue Ansätze in der experimentellen Wirtschaftsforschung. After the second world war Breslau became Polish and the original German population was almost completely replaced by … Originally my parents intended to let me grow up without any attachment to a particular religion in order to give me the opportunity to decide for myself later in my life. He was habilitated at Bielefeld and is now a Professor of Economics at Innsbruck. At the University of Bonn my work and that of most of my assistants is concentrated on experimental economics. Reinhard Selten has been listed as a level-5 vital article in People, Social scientists. Books . theory can be described as the mathematical modeling and analysis of �@�@Professor Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. This autobiography/biography was written In his speech today he highlighted the success of economic and monetary union and stressed the importance of preserving the "independence of the ECB". Fortunately it turned out that this did not matter much since after about half a year my mother, my brothers, my sister, and I left Breslau on one of the last trains before all outbound railway traffic stopped. I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. . In 1972, Professor Selten was D. is not yet the last formal requirement for a career as a university teacher. Sur la kampo de ekonomio la universitato de Bonn estas inter la gvidaj altlernejoj en Germanio. Ĉirkaŭ 1900 el inter la entute 37000 studentoj studas ĉe la fakultato de ekonomiaj sciencoj. A game theoretical analysis of this model proved to be too difficult but I was able to solve a simplified version. The group often met for several days near Washington D.C.. Reinhard Selten (5. října 1930 Vratislav – 23. srpna 2016 Poznaň) byl německý matematik a ekonom.. Za přínos k teorii her mu byla v roce 1994 udělena Cena Švédské národní banky za rozvoj ekonomické vědy na památku Afreda Nobela (známá jako Nobelova cena za ekonomii).Společně s ním ji získali i dva další ekonomové, John Forbes Nash a John Harsanyi. After we left Breslau we were refugees, first in Saxonia, then in Austria and finally in Hessia. Prof. Dr. Reinhard Selten, aufgenommen am 9. Reinhard Selten has close ties with the Department of Economics of the and gave a public lecture on "Game Theory" in October 2002. return Professor Reinhard Selten - Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger 1994, befragt von Rainer Kurz Wir sind in der deutschen Universitätsstadt Bonn. together with Professor John C Harsanyi and Professor John F Nash. He then When we still lived in the village near Melsungen, I had to walk to school which took about three and a half hours there and back. MLA style: Reinhard Selten – Biographical. However, I felt that I could not really do work on pollination problems without learning at least a little of the art of recognizing wild flowers. My first experience of this kind was my cooperation with the political scientist Amos Perlmutter with whom I developed the scenario bundle method, a systematic way of constructing simple game models of concrete international conflicts. Already in the mid-thirties he had to sell his firm because of his Jewish origin. I cooperated with John C. Harsanyi on bargaining under incomplete information, but I also did other work on models of nuclear deterrence. In these years Germany experienced a period of student unrest, which made teaching difficult and sometimes impossible. I participated in the seminar and Ewald Burger gave me the chance to write a master’s thesis in cooperative game theory. Er war der erste Mathematiker in Frankfurt, der mit der mathematischen Ökonomie ein nicht-naturwissenschaftliches Nebenfach wählen durfte. It is our goal to help to build up a descriptive branch of decision and game theory which takes the limited rationality of human behavior seriously. I still like to hike in forested hills and to think while walking. Preview Buy Chapter 25,95 ... A Simple Model of Imperfect Competition, where 4 Are Few and 6 Are Many. Several outreach organisations and activities have been developed to inspire generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize. It took me relatively long to reach my master’s degree in mathematics. Applications cover a wide range of subjects Reinhard Selten auf Deutsch Ungarisch Deutsch Wörterbuch. Originally I considered to take astronomy as a minor for my master’s degree and I actually spent much time trying to get some knowledge of this field but now almost everything is forgotten. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter and when I studied mathematics I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it. August 2016 in Posen (Polen). NobelPrize.org. 26 Dec 2020. In the following years he sometimes asked me to meet him when his travels brought him to Frankfurt. This enabled me to see the perfectness problem earlier than others and to write the contributions for which I am now honored by the prize in memory of Alfred Nobel. Allgemeine Informationen über Experimente At Goethe University Frankfurt, Selten began to study mathematics and earned his degree in 1957. Tuesdays from 18:00 – 19:00 at the University of Bonn, Juridicum, room 0.017 (Reinhard Selten Raum, Juridicum | Adenauerallee 24-42, 53113 Bonn). and unreasonable decisions in predicting the outcome of games. This was a florishing branch of industry. Very soon it became clear to me that the perfectness problem is not completely solved by this concept. I liked the interdisciplinary atmosphere at the University of Bielefeld, but I wanted to build up a computerized laboratory for experimental economics and Bonn was willing to offer me much better conditions in this respect. The structure of boundedly rational economic behavior cannot be invented in the armchair, it must be explored experimentally. Created: 27. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to Germany and only German was spoken there. For his work in game theory,