Leonid Khachiyan

Leonid Khachiyan
Born
Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan

(1952-05-03)May 3, 1952
Leningrad, Soviet Union
DiedApril 29, 2005(2005-04-29) (aged 52)
CitizenshipSoviet Union, United States
Children2, including Anna
AwardsFulkerson Prize (1982)
Scientific career
InstitutionsComputer Center of the Soviet Academy of Sciences
Rutgers University

Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan[1][a] (/kɑːən/;[4] Russian: Леони́д Ге́нрихович Хачия́н; May 3, 1952 – April 29, 2005) was a Soviet and American mathematician and computer scientist.

He was most famous for his ellipsoid algorithm (1979) for linear programming,[5] which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time. Even though this algorithm was shown to be impractical, it has inspired other randomized algorithms for convex programming and is considered a significant theoretical breakthrough.

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  2. ^ Boas, Harold P. (30 November 1979). "Linear Programming Discovery". Science. 206 (4422): 1022. Bibcode:1979Sci...206.1022B. doi:10.1126/science.206.4422.1022-c.
  3. ^ Browne, Malcolm W. (November 7, 1979). "A Soviet Discovery Rocks World of Mathematics". The New York Times.
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  5. ^ Lawler, Eugene L. (1980). "The Great Mathematical Sputnik of 1979". The Sciences. 20 (7): 12–15. doi:10.1002/j.2326-1951.1980.tb01345.x. S2CID 56588045.


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