John Harsanyi - Definition and Overview

John Charles Harsanyi (May 29, 1920 - August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American business and economics professor who contributed to the study of game theory in mathematics by developing the analysis of games of incomplete information.

For his work, he was a co-recipient of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.

Harsanyi was born in Budapest, Hungary and educated at the University of Budapest (today: Eötvös Loránd University). He died in 2000 after a longtime professorship at the University of California, Berkeley.

External links

• Dr. Harsanyi's autobiography from the Nobel website (http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/harsanyi-autobio.html)
• News article remembering Dr. Harsanyi's life and career (http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/news/harsanyi.html)