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Leonid Kantorovich
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Russian mathematician (1912-1986)
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Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich was a Soviet mathematician, economist, and university teacher. Born in Saint Petersburg in 1912, he worked in functional analysis, linear programming, set theory, and mathematics. He was educated at Saint Petersburg State University and held the academic degree of full professor. His doctoral advisors were Grigory Fichtengolz and Vladimir Smirnov, and his doctoral student was Valeri Makarov.
Kantorovich is noted for the Kantorovich theorem and the Kantorovich inequality. He participated in World War II and resided in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, and Novosibirsk. He died in Moscow in 1986 and is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery. A native Russian speaker of Jewish ethnicity, he was recognized in the Nobel Economics collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1975
“for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Saint Petersburg
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Employer
- Steklov Institute of Mathematics
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Academic degree
- full professor
- Doctoral advisor
- Vladimir Smirnov
- Field of work
- economics
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military rank
- Lieutenant Colonel
- Image
- Leonid Kantorovich 1975.jpg
- Residence
- Novosibirsk
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- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Commons category
- Leonid Kantorovich
- date of birth
- 1912-01-15
- date of death
- 1986-04-07
- name in native language
- Леонид Витальевич Канторович
- described at URL
- www.mi.ras.ru/index.php?c=inmemoriapage&id=21951&l=1
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- birth name
- Леонид Витальевич Канторович
- student
- Hoàng Tụy
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- mathematics
- member of
- German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
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Encyclopedic overview
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich (Russian: Леонид Витальевич Канторович, IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲit vʲɪˈtalʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kəntɐˈrovʲɪtɕ] ; 19 January 1912 – 7 April 1986) 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. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1975.
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