"It is difficult to distinguish another scholar in the history of the twentieth century who contributed as much as him to the fusion of mathematics and economics, the sciences with the antipodal standards of scientific thought. pointed out that he can list only John von Neumann and alongside Leonid Kantorovich among those few of his contemporaries who synthesized the mathematical and humanitarian cultures."
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, "Kantorovich's phenomenon," Siberian Mathematical Journal, 48 (1) (2007), 1-2.
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Leonid Kantorovich
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich (19 January 1912 – 7 April 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He is regarded as the founder of linear programming. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975.
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