14 Facts About Leonid Kantorovich

Leonid Kantorovich is regarded as the founder of linear programming.

Leonid Kantorovich was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1975.

Leonid Kantorovich's father was a doctor practicing in Saint Petersburg.

Leonid Kantorovich graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics in 1930, and began his graduate studies.

Leonid Kantorovich was given the task of optimizing production in a plywood industry.

Leonid Kantorovich devised the mathematical technique now known as linear programming in 1939, some years before it was advanced by George Dantzig.

Leonid Kantorovich authored several books including The Mathematical Method of Production Planning and Organization, The Best Uses of Economic Resources, and, with Vladimir Ivanovich Krylov, Approximate methods of higher analysis.

Leonid Kantorovich calculated the optimal distance between cars on ice in dependence of the thickness of ice and the temperature of the air.

In December 1941 and January 1942, Leonid Kantorovich walked himself between cars driving on the ice of Lake Ladoga on the Road of Life to ensure that cars did not sink.

In 1948 Leonid Kantorovich was assigned to the atomic project of the USSR.

In mathematical analysis, Leonid Kantorovich had important results in functional analysis, approximation theory, and operator theory.

In particular, Leonid Kantorovich formulated some fundamental results in the theory of normed vector lattices, especially in Dedekind complete vector lattices called "K-spaces" which are now referred to as "Leonid Kantorovich spaces" in his honor.

Leonid Kantorovich showed that functional analysis could be used in the analysis of iterative methods, obtaining the Leonid Kantorovich inequalities on the convergence rate of the gradient method and of Newton's method.

Leonid Kantorovich considered infinite-dimensional optimization problems, such as the Leonid Kantorovich-Monge problem in transport theory.