Leonid Kantorovich
Soviet mathematician and economist
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He is regarded as the founder of linear programming. Wikipedia
Born: January 19, 1912, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: April 7, 1986 (age 74 years), Moscow, Russia
Education: Saint Petersburg State University (1926–1930)
Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1975) and USSR State Prize (1949)
Books
The best use of economic resources
1965
Functional analysis in normed spaces
1982
Approximate methods of higher analysis
1958
Funktionalanalysis in Normierten Räumen
1964
Problems of application of optimization methods in industry
1976
Tables for the Numerical Solution of Boundary Value Problems: Of the Theory of Harmonic Functions
1963