Functional Analysis, Optimization, and Mathematical Economics. A Collection of Papers Dedicated to the Memory of Leonid Vital'evich Kantorovich. With a Foreword by Wassily Leontief.

LEIFMAN, Lev. J. (ed.):

ISBN 10: 0195057295 / ISBN 13: 9780195057294

Published by New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990., 1990

About this Item

First Edition. Frontispiece, xiv, 1 leaf, 341 pp; figs.; tables. Original cloth. Near Fine, without dust jacket (as issued). Contains 20 papers, including a biographical memoir and an autobiographical sketch. Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich (1912-1986): Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1975 (shared with Tjalling C. Koopmans), "for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Functional Analysis, Optimization, and Mathematical Economics. A Collection of Papers Dedicated to the Memory of Leonid Vital'evich Kantorovich. With a Foreword by Wassily Leontief.
• Publisher: New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195057295
• ISBN 13: 9780195057294
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing

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Synopsis

This is a collection of papers on the work of Leonid Kantorovich, a Russian mathematician and economist, and a leading contributor to the fields of optimization and mathematical economics. Kantorovich invented linear programming then applied this theory to optimal macroeconomic planning in a socialist economy, for which he received the Nobel Prize. The book is dedicated to the memory of Kantorovich, who died in 1986. It contains original contributions from several researchers in the USSR never before available in the U.S. It is organized in a logical sequence, from mathematics to the applications of the theories to concrete problems. The work is fully illustrated.

About the Author

Lev J. Leifman is at American Mathematical Society.