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Leonid Kantorovich

1912 - 1986

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Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich (Russian: Леонид Витальевич Канторович, IPA: [lʲɪɐˈnʲit vʲɪˈtalʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kəntɐˈrovʲɪtɕ] ; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Kantorovich has received more than 324,675 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Leonid Kantorovich is the 118th most popular mathematician (down from 113th in 2019), the 253rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 228th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Mathematician.

Leonid Kantorovich is most famous for his contributions to linear programming and optimal resource allocation.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Leonid Kantorovich ranks 118 out of 823Before him are Theon of Alexandria, Charles Hermite, Grigori Perelman, Josef Stefan, Christopher Clavius, and Hermann Weyl. After him are Émile Borel, Aloysius Lilius, Edward Norton Lorenz, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Andrew Wiles, and Marian Rejewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Leonid Kantorovich ranks 37Before him are Pierre Boulle, Sergiu Celibidache, Edward Mills Purcell, Jozef Gabčík, Otto Ernst Remer, and Minoru Yamasaki. After him are Juan Pujol García, Karl Malden, Glenn T. Seaborg, Lawrence Durrell, Sonja Henie, and Otto Kretschmer. Among people deceased in 1986, Leonid Kantorovich ranks 33Before him are James Rainwater, Chiune Sugihara, Jaroslav Seifert, Minoru Yamasaki, Georges Dumézil, and L. Ron Hubbard. After him are Samora Machel, Stanley Rous, Lê Duẩn, James Cagney, Robert S. Mulliken, and Vincente Minnelli.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Kantorovich ranks 253 out of 3,262Before him are Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Alexander Blok (1880), Pitirim Sorokin (1889), Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938), and Alexander Oparin (1894). After him are Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), Bruno Taut (1880), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Daniel of Moscow (1261), Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788), and Alexander Litvinenko (1962).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Leonid Kantorovich ranks 9Before him are Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Christian Goldbach (1690), and Grigori Perelman (1966). After him are Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), Pavel Alexandrov (1896), Igor Ansoff (1918), and Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943).