Leonid Kantorovich

Leonid Kantorovich was born on January 19, 1912, in Saint Petersburg, and passed away on April 7, 1986, in Moscow. He held citizenship in both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Kantorovich was a mathematician, economist, and scientist who was educated at Saint Petersburg State University and the USSR Academy of Science.

Kantorovich's doctoral advisor was Vladimir Smirnov, a mathematician. He advised several doctoral students, including Tamara Smirnova, Lyudmila Petrova, and Svetlozar Rachev. Kantorovich was known for his contributions to linear programming, the Kantorovich theorem, normed vector lattice (Kantorovich space), Kantorovich metric, Kantorovich inequality, approximation theory, iterative methods, functional analysis, numerical analysis, and scientific computing.

In his remarkable career, Kantorovich worked on notable publications, including the Kantorovich inequality and the Kantorovich theorem. His academic disciplines were economics and mathematics.

Leonid Kantorovich received the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in these fields.