Leonid Kantorovich

Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich (Russian: Леони́д Вита́льевич Канторо́вич, IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲit vʲɪˈtalʲɪvʲɪtɕ kəntɐˈrovʲɪtɕ] (listen)) (19 January 1912 – 7 April 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and economist. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1975.

Leonid Kantorovich
Leonid Kantorovich in 1975
Born	(1912-01-19)19 January 1912 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	7 April 1986(1986-04-07) (aged 74) Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
Nationality	Soviet
Alma mater	Leningrad State University
Known for	Linear programming Kantorovich theorem normed vector lattice (Kantorovich space) Kantorovich metric Kantorovich inequality approximation theory iterative methods functional analysis numerical analysis scientific computing
Awards	Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1975)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Institute of National Economic Planning 1971–76 USSR Academy of Sciences 1961–71 Leningrad State University 1934–60
Doctoral advisor	Grigorii Fichtenholz Vladimir Smirnov
Doctoral students	Svetlozar Rachev
Academic career
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

After 1960, Kantorovich lived and worked in Novosibirsk, where he created and took charge of the Department of Computational Mathematics in Novosibirsk State University.^[1]