Leonid Kantorovich - Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1975
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Leonid Kantorovich

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1975
for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources
Together with: Tjalling Koopmans
Citizenship
Soviet UnionSoviet Union
Languages
Russian
date of birth
1/19/1912
place of birth
Saint Petersburg
date of death
4/7/1986
place of death
Moscow
Lived
74 years

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occupation
  • university teacher
  • mathematician
  • economist
field of work
  • set theory
  • functional analysis
  • linear programming
  • mathematics
  • economics
educated at
  • Saint Petersburg State University
    • start time: 1926
    • end time: 1930
employer
  • Institute of National Economy Management
    • start time: 1971
    • end time: 1976
  • Military Engineering-Technical University
    • start time: 1939
    • end time: 1945
  • Novosibirsk State University
    • start time: 1961
    • end time: 1971
  • St. Petersburg State Transport University
    • start time: 1930
    • end time: 1939
  • Saint Petersburg State University
    • start time: 1931
    • end time: 1958
  • Saint Petersburg State University
    • start time: 1958
    • end time: 1960
  • State Committee for Science and Technology
    • start time: 1971
    • end time: 1976
  • Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS
    • start time: 1960
    • end time: 1970
  • Institute for Systems Analysis
    • start time: 1976
  • Steklov Institute of Mathematics
member of
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1972
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1967
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1969
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
    • start time: 1977
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 3/28/1958
    • end time: 6/26/1964
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 6/26/1964
doctoral student
  • László Czách
  • Michael Z. Solomyak
  • Vladimir Aleksandrovich Bulavsky
  • Tamara Nikiforovna Smirnova
  • Lyudmila Trofimovna Petrova
  • Iosif Romanovsky
  • Igor Karlovich Daugavet
  • Valentin Ilyin
  • Izabella Yurievna Kharrik
  • Gennady Rubinshtein
  • Gleb Pavlovich Akilov
  • Viktor Khavin
  • Svetlozar Rachev
  • Valeri Makarov
notable work
  • Kantorovich theorem
  • Kantorovich inequality
  • Szász–Mirakjan–Kantorovich operator
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