R. Tyrrell Rockafellar

Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar
R. Tyrrell ("Terry") Rockafellar in 1977
Born (1935-02-10) February 10, 1935 (age 89)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Alma materHarvard University
Known forConvex analysis
Monotone operator
Calculus of variation
Stochastic programming
Oriented matroid
AwardsDantzig Prize of SIAM and MPS 1982
von Neumann citation of SIAM 1992
Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of INFORMS 1998
John von Neumann Theory Prize of INFORMS 1999
Doctor Honoris Causa:
Groningen, Montpellier, Chile, Alicante
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical optimization
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington 1966-
University of Florida (adjunct) 2003-
University of Texas, Austin 1963–1965
ThesisConvex Functions and Dual Extremum Problems (1963)
Doctoral advisorGarrett Birkhoff
Notable studentsPeter Wolenski
Francis Clarke

Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar (born February 10, 1935) is an American mathematician and one of the leading scholars in optimization theory and related fields of analysis and combinatorics. He is the author of four major books including the landmark text "Convex Analysis" (1970),[1] which has been cited more than 27,000 times according to Google Scholar and remains the standard reference on the subject, and "Variational Analysis" (1998, with Roger J-B Wets) for which the authors received the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

He is professor emeritus at the departments of mathematics and applied mathematics at the University of Washington, Seattle.

  1. ^ Rockafeller, Ralph Tyrell (12 January 1997). Convex Analysis: (PMS-28) (Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics and Physics, 18). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691015866.

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