photo Leonid Kantorovich

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 Union Soviet 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
employer
  • Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS
    • end time: 1/1/1970
    • start time: 1/1/1960
  • Institute of National Economy Management
    • start time: 1/1/1971
    • end time: 1/1/1976
  • State Committee for Science and Technology
    • start time: 1/1/1971
    • end time: 1/1/1976
  • Novosibirsk State University
    • end time: 1/1/1971
    • start time: 1/1/1961
  • Saint Petersburg State University
    • end time: 1/1/1960
    • start time: 1/1/1958
  • Institute for Systems Analysis
    • start time: 1/1/1976
  • St. Petersburg State Transport University
    • end time: 1/1/1939
    • start time: 1/1/1930
  • Military Engineering-Technical University
    • end time: 1/1/1945
    • start time: 1/1/1939
  • Saint Petersburg State University
    • end time: 1/1/1958
    • start time: 1/1/1931
  • Steklov Institute of Mathematics
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1969
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
    • start time: 1/1/1977
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • end time: 6/26/1964
    • start time: 3/28/1958
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 6/26/1964
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1/1/1972
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1967
educated at
  • Saint Petersburg State University
    • end time: 1/1/1930
    • start time: 1/1/1926
field of work
  • mathematics
  • economics
  • set theory
  • functional analysis
  • linear programming
doctoral student
  • László Czách
  • Michael Z. Solomyak
  • Vladimir Aleksandrovich Bulavsky
  • Lyudmila Trofimovna Petrova
  • Tamara Nikiforovna Smirnova
  • Iosif Romanovsky
  • Izabella Yurievna Kharrik
  • Igor Karlovich Daugavet
  • Valentin Ilyin
  • Gennady Rubinshtein
  • Gleb Pavlovich Akilov
  • Viktor Khavin
  • Valeri Makarov
  • Svetlozar Rachev
notable work
  • Kantorovich theorem
  • Kantorovich inequality
  • Szász–Mirakjan–Kantorovich operator
occupation
  • mathematician
  • economist
  • university teacher
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