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, Bengali and Korean. He is a sought-after lecturer in Israel, and was a 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''.

Shapira was born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1962 and immigrated to Israel at the age of 14 in 1977. Provided by Wikipedia