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Leonid Kantorovich

1912 - 1986

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Kantorovich is the 115th most popular mathematician (up from 118th in 2019), the 209th most popular biography from Russia (up from 239th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Mathematician.

Leonid Kantorovich is most famous for his contributions to linear programming and optimal resource allocation.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Leonid Kantorovich ranks 115 out of 1,004. Before him are Paul Cohen, Alexis Clairaut, Grigori Perelman, Ctesibius, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, and George Green. After him are Alexander Friedmann, William Oughtred, Gabriel Cramer, Christopher Clavius, Madhava of Sangamagrama, and Isaac Barrow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Leonid Kantorovich ranks 35. Before him are Glenn T. Seaborg, Maria Mandl, Roy Sullivan, Sergiu Celibidache, Edward Mills Purcell, and Tibor Sekelj. After him are Adolf Galland, Juan Pujol García, Patrick White, Julius Axelrod, Woody Guthrie, and Karl Malden. Among people deceased in 1986, Leonid Kantorovich ranks 24. Before him are Joseph Beuys, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Alva Myrdal, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry Moore, and Michael J. Smith. After him are Georges Dumézil, Celâl Bayar, Jaroslav Seifert, Harold Macmillan, Fritz Albert Lipmann, and Chiune Sugihara.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Kantorovich ranks 209 out of 3,761. Before him are Leonid Hurwicz (1917), Grigori Perelman (1966), Alexei Leonov (1934), Vladimir Propp (1895), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), and Mikhail Suslov (1902). After him are Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Sabina Spielrein (1885), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853), and Nikolai Vavilov (1887).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Leonid Kantorovich ranks 8. Before him are Georg Cantor (1845), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Christian Goldbach (1690), and Grigori Perelman (1966). After him are Alexander Friedmann (1888), Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), and Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909).

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