Kantorovich

Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich

Born: 19 Jan 1912 in St Petersburg, Russia
Died: 7 April 1986 in USSR

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Kantorovich studied at Leningrad State University, receiving his doctorate in mathematics in 1930. From 1934 to 1960 he was a professor at Leningrad. He held the chair of mathematics and economics in the Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1961-1971), then directed research at Moscow's Institute of National Economic Planning (1971-76).

Kantorovich was one of the first to use linear programming as a tool in economics. His background was entirely in mathematics but he showed a considerable feel for the underlying economics to which he applied the mathematical techniques.

Kantorovich was a joint winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for economics for work on the optimal allocation of scarce resources.

References:

  1. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. L J Leifman (ed.), Functional analysis, optimization and mathematical economics : a collection of papers dedicated to the memory of Leonid Vital'evich Kantorovich (New York, 1990).
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