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Was a Soviet
mathematician and
economist. He was the
winner of the Nobel Prize
in Economics in 1975 and
the only winner of this
prize from the USSR.
(1912-1986)
Leonid was born on January 19, 1912, to a
Russian Jewish family. His father was a
venerologist doctor practicing in Saint
Petersburg. In 1926, at the age of
fourteen, he began his studies at the
Leningrad University. He graduated from
the Faculty of Mathematics and began his
graduate studies.
•St.State University is a
Russian federal state-owned
higher education institution
based in Saint Petersburg
and one of the oldest and
largest universities in Russia.
It is made up of 22
specialized faculties.
•Leonid entered the
university at the age of 14,
and started participate in
seminars on descriptive
function theory.
First and major achievement
came in 1938 is ‘Linear
programming’. This is a
mathematical method for
determining a way to achieve the
best outcome.
•“The Best uses of economic
resources”, where he shows that
every economy had to be
concerned with using prices to
control distribution of goods and
material resources.
• Published in 1959.
•In 1957 Leonid Kantorovich was
awarded the Nobel Prize with
Tjalling Koopmans, for their
development in economic
sphere.
•Awarded by governments
Lenin Prize, 1965, and also
the Order of Lenin, in 1967.
•Functional analysis
•Computational
mathematics
•Iterative methods
•Numerical analysis
•Scientific computing
•Over 300 scientific articles in different areas
made a dramatic impact on the foundation of
the disciplines…He was First Soviet man
awarded with the Nobel Prize