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Mar 11, 1946 Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium Died on 17 Jul 2012 (aged 66)
Belgian game theorist
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About Jean François Mertens
- Jean-François Mertens (11 March 1946 – 17 July 2012) was a Belgian game theorist and mathematical economist.Mertens contributed to economic theory in regards to order-book of market games, cooperative games, noncooperative games, repeated games, epistemic models of strategic behavior, and refinements of Nash equilibrium (see solution concept).
- In cooperative game theory he contributed to the solution concepts called the core and the Shapley value.
- Regarding repeated games and stochastic games, Mertens 1982 and 1986 survey articles, and his 1994 survey co-authored with Sylvain Sorin and Shmuel Zamir, are compendiums of results on this topic, including his own contributions.
- Mertens also made contributions to probability theory and published articles on elementary topology.
