von Neumann Theory Prize

Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 38% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

38%of all recipients are Jewish

15 documented recipients

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Abraham Charnes1982

Co-founder of applied linear programming and data envelopment analysis; von Neumann Theory Prize (1982)

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William Cooper1982

Co-creator of data envelopment analysis and goal programming; von Neumann Theory Prize (1982)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Herbert Scarf1983

Devised the first algorithm for computing economic equilibria; von Neumann Theory Prize (1983)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Ralph Gomory1984

Invented the cutting-plane method of integer programming; von Neumann Theory Prize (1984)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Philip Wolfe1992

Co-created the Frank-Wolfe algorithm of nonlinear optimization; von Neumann Theory Prize (1992)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Frank Proschan1991

Founder of mathematical reliability theory; von Neumann Theory Prize (1991)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Alan Hoffman1992

Pioneer of combinatorial optimization and linear programming duality; von Neumann Theory Prize (1992)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Egon Balas1995

Holocaust survivor who founded disjunctive programming in integer optimization; von Neumann Theory Prize (1995)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Cyrus Derman2002

Developer of Markov decision processes for sequential decisions; von Neumann Theory Prize (2002)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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George Nemhauser2012

Leading figure of integer programming and its applications; von Neumann Theory Prize (2012)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Laurence Wolsey2012

Authority on integer programming theory and practice; von Neumann Theory Prize (2012)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Nimrod Megiddo2014

Israeli inventor of linear-time algorithms for low-dimensional linear programming; von Neumann Theory Prize (2014)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Martin Reiman2016

Pioneer of heavy-traffic queueing theory; von Neumann Theory Prize (2016)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Donald Goldfarb2017

Co-author of the BFGS optimization method used across science and machine learning; von Neumann Theory Prize (2017)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize

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Alexander Shapiro2021

Authority on stochastic programming under uncertainty; von Neumann Theory Prize (2021)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the von Neumann Theory Prize