Leonid Kantorovich
Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich (Russian: Леони́д Вита́льевич Канторо́вич, IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲit vʲɪˈtalʲɪvʲɪtɕ kəntɐˈrovʲɪtɕ] (
listen)) (19 January 1912 – 7 April 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and economist. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1975.
Leonid Kantorovich | |
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 Leonid Kantorovich in 1975 | |
| Born | 19 January 1912 |
| Died | 7 April 1986 (aged 74) |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
| Known for | Linear programming Kantorovich theorem normed vector lattice (Kantorovich space) Kantorovich metric Kantorovich inequality approximation theory iterative methods functional analysis numerical analysis scientific computing |
| Awards | Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1975) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Institute of National Economic Planning 1971–76 USSR Academy of Sciences 1961–71 Leningrad State University 1934–60 |
| Doctoral students | Svetlozar Rachev |
| Academic career | |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
After 1960, Kantorovich lived and worked in Novosibirsk, where he created and took charge of the Department of Computational Mathematics in Novosibirsk State University.[1]
Leonid Kantorovich Media
Original CIA file on Kantorovich, seized from the former US Embassy in Tehran.
References
Other websites
- O'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson "Leonid Kantorovich". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Leonid Kantorovich at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Information about: Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich – IDEAS/RePEc
- Biography Leonid Kantorovich from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
- Biographical documentary about L.Kantorovich Archived 2021-09-25 at the Wayback Machine