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Eilon Solan

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli mathematician”. Today it says “israeli mathematician and professor at the school of mathematical sciences of tel aviv university”.
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Eilon Solan ( ) (born 1969) is an Israeli mathematician , science fiction writer, and professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel Aviv University .1 His research focuses on game theory , stochastic processes , and measure theory .

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israeli mathematician

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israeli mathematician and professor at the school of mathematical sciences of tel aviv university

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