Leonid Kantorovich
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| Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich | |
 Leonid V. Kantorovich
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| Born | January 19, 1912 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
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| Died | April 7, 1986 (aged 74) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Institute of National Economic Planning 1971-76 USSR Academy of Sciences 1961-71 Leningrad State University 1934-60 |
| Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Grigorii Fichtengolz |
| Known for | Linear programming |
| Notable awards |  Nobel Prize in Economics (1975) |
Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich (January 19, 1912 in Saint Petersburg – April 7, 1986 in Moscow) (Russian: Леонид Витальевич Канторович) was a Soviet/Russian mathematician and economist. He is famous for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975 and the only winner of this prize from the USSR.
Kantorovich worked for the Soviet government. He was given the task of optimizing production in a plywood industry. He came up (1939) with the mathematical technique now known as linear programming, some years before it was reinvented and much advanced by George Dantzig. He authored several books including The Mathematical Method of Production Planning and Organization and The Best Uses of Economic Resources.
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Tjalling Koopmans, was given "for their contributions to the theory of optimal allocation of resources."
[edit] References
- V. Makarov (1987). "Kantorovich, Leonid Vitaliyevich" The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 3, pp. 14-15.
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[edit] External links
- Leonid Kantorovich (with a small photo)
- contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources.
- koopmans lecture - pdf
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Leonid Kantorovich”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive (With additional photos.)
- Leonid Kantorovich at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- (Russian)Biography on the homepage of Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, in Russian
- (Russian)mmonline.ru On Leonid Kantorovich and linear programming (in Russian), by Anatoly Vershik
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