Reinhard Selten's Birth Card: The 4 of Diamonds

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Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten (German: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈzɛltn̩] ; 5 October 1930 – 23 August 2016) was a German economist, who won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with John Harsanyi and John Nash). The birth-card coordinate for October 5 is the 4 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1994 Economic Sciences prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1994 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games

The 4 of Diamonds coordinate

Reinhard Selten's birthday maps to the 4 of Diamonds (The Financial Foundation Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Reinhard Selten. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.

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Reinhard Selten in the public record

He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality and can be considered one of the founding fathers of experimental economics. Selten was born in Breslau (Wrocław) in Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father, Adolf Selten (a blind bookseller; d. 1942), and Protestant mother, Käthe Luther. Reinhard Selten was raised as Protestant. After a brief family exile in Saxony and Austria, Selten returned to Hesse, Germany, after the war and, in high school, read an article in Fortune magazine about game theory by the business writer John D. McDonald. He recalled later, he would occupy his "mind with problems of elementary geometry and algebra" while walking back and forth to school during that time. He studied mathematics at Goethe University Frankfurt and obtained his diploma in 1957.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Reinhard Selten (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it.

His last work was "Impulse Balance Theory and its Extension by an Additional Criterion".

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Also on the record

1. He then worked as scientific assistant to Heinz Sauermann until 1967.
2. In 1959, he married with Elisabeth Langreiner.
3. They had no children.
4. In 1961, he also received his doctorate in Frankfurt in mathematics with a thesis on the evaluation of n-person games.

Other laureates with this card

• Abhijit Banerjee — 2019 Economic Sciences
• Aleksandr M. Prokhorov — 1964 Physics
• Amartya Sen — 1998 Economic Sciences
• Derek Walcott — 1992 Literature
• Drew Weissman — 2023 Physiology or Medicine
• Finn E. Kydland — 2004 Economic Sciences
• Frank Wilczek — 2004 Physics
• Frédéric Joliot — 1935 Chemistry
• Georges J.F. Köhler — 1984 Physiology or Medicine
• Gertrude B. Elion — 1988 Physiology or Medicine
• Henrik Dam — 1943 Physiology or Medicine
• Hideki Yukawa — 1949 Physics
• 22 more laureates share this card.

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