Leonid V. Kantorovich

Thinkers1912 to 1986Mathematician and economist

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A Soviet mathematician regarded as a founder of linear programming, which he developed in 1939 for planning production. He shared the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for contributions to the theory of the optimal allocation of resources.

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