Claude Lemaréchal
French applied mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Claude Lemaréchal is a French applied mathematician, and former senior researcher (directeur de recherche) at INRIA[1] near Grenoble, France.
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Claude Lemárechal | |
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![]() Claude Lemaréchal in 2005 | |
Nationality | French |
Known for | Bundle methods of descent for convex minimization and nonsmooth optimization |
Awards | Dantzig Prize of SIAM and MPS 1994 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematical optimization Operations research Scientific computing |
Institutions | INRIA |
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In mathematical optimization, Claude Lemaréchal is known for his work in numerical methods for nonlinear optimization, especially for problems with nondifferentiable kinks. Lemaréchal and Philip Wolfe pioneered bundle methods of descent for convex minimization.[2]