Leonid Kantorovich

Leonid Kantorovich
Leonid Kantorovich
Леонид Канторович
	Kantorovich in 1975
Born	Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich; 19 January 1912; Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	7 April 1986 (aged 74); Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Nationality	Soviet
Alma mater	Leningrad State University
Known for	Cutting stock problem; Linear programming; Kantorovich inequality; Kantorovich metric; Kantorovich theorem; Kantorovich–Rubinstein metric; Monge–Kantorovich transportation problem; Szász–Mirakjan–Kantorovich operator
Awards	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1975); Stalin Prize (1949)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	USSR Academy of Sciences; Leningrad State University
Doctoral advisor	Grigorii Fichtenholz ; Vladimir Smirnov
Doctoral students	Svetlozar Rachev; Gennadii Rubinstein
Academic career
	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

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.