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Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich (January 19, 1912
in Saint_Petersburg%2C_Russia|Petersburg —
April 7, 1986 in Moscow) was a Soviet
Union|Soviet/Russian mathematician and economist.
He is famous for his theory and development of
techniques for the optimal allocation of
resources. He was the winner of the 1975 Bank of
Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of
Alfred Nobel.

Kantorovich worked for the Soviet Union|Soviet
government. He was given the task of
optimization|optimizing production in a plywood
industry. He came up with the mathematical
technique known as linear programming. He authored
several books including The Mathematical Method of
Production Planning and Organization and The Best
Uses of Economic Resources.

The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences,
which he shared with Tjalling Koopmans, was given
"for their contributions to the theory of optimal
allocation of resources."

==See also==
*List of economists
*List of economics consultancies and think tanks

==External links==

*http://www.nobel-winners.com/Economics/leonid_vit
alyevich_kantorovich.html Leonid Kantorovich (with
a small photo)
*http://math.nsc.ru/LBRT/u2/nauka/kant.html
Biography on the homepage of Sobolev Institute of
Mathematics, in Russian language|Russian
*http://www.mmonline.ru/articles.php?mid=1893
mmonline.ru On Leonid Kantorovich and linear
programming (in Russian), by Anatoly Vershik
*http://www.geocities.com/gfh_axds_as/zax/kantorov
ich-lecture.html contributions to the theory of
optimum allocation of resources.
*http://www.geocities.com/gfh_axds_as/zax/koopmans
-lecture.pdf koopmans lecture - pdf




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