95 years ago today, on June 8, 1930 (May 12, 1930 in the lunar calendar), German economist Robert Auman was born. On June 8, 1930, German economist Robert Auman was born. Robert Auman, with a fluttering white beard and always a smile on his face, was born on June 8, 1930 in Frankfurt, am Main, Germany. In 1938, he moved with his family to New York, USA, after fleeing Nazi persecution. Auman graduated from the State University of New York with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1950, and received a master's degree in mathematics and a doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952 and 1955 respectively. On October 10, 2005, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it would award the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics to Robert Auman, who holds dual citizenship of Israel and the United States, and Thomas Schelling, an American. As one of the "Four Gentlemen" of contemporary game theory, Robert Auman has long been a dazzling star in the international economics community; Schelling, one of the founders of American military control theory, is also well known to people in the industry. Comment: A strange and familiar master of economics