Haim Shapira


Haim Shapira is an Israeli mathematician, pianist, speaker, philosopher and game theorist. He writes in Hebrew, and his books have been translated into English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian and Korean. He is one of the most sought-after lecturers in Israel, and was also a keynote speaker at TEDxJaffa on game theory and strategy. His first two books in English are Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance and Gladiators, Pirates and Games of Trust. He also arranged and performed music on the soundtrack for John Wick: Chapter 2.
Haim Shapira was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1962 and immigrated to Israel at the age of 14 in 1977.

Education

Haim Shapira holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Theoretical Mathematics and a Master of Science degree in Probability and Statistics, both from the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
He earned a PhD in Mathematical Genetics from Tel Aviv University in 1995. He also holds a PhD in Science Education from Tel Aviv University.

Current position

Haim Shapira was a lecturer at Tel Aviv University from 1994 to 2000.
He is currently a senior lecturer at The College of Management Academic Studies in Rishon LeZion, Israel. He is Head of the Excellent Students Program and lecturer at the School of Economics and at the School of Behavioral Sciences.
His main research areas are game theory and philosophy. In 2016 he taught game theory and statistics.

Publications

Books in Hebrew