Alan Hoffman
Alan Hoffman · Technology & Engineering
Pioneer of combinatorial optimization and linear programming duality; von Neumann Theory Prize (1992)
1924, New York City, United States — 2021, United States
United States
Alan Hoffman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Pioneer of combinatorial optimization and linear programming duality; von Neumann Theory Prize (1992)
Alan J. Hoffman was an American mathematician at IBM's Watson Research Center and an IBM Fellow, a founder of combinatorial optimization who worked on linear programming, graph spectra (Hoffman–Singleton graph) and the theory of duality; he shared the 1992 John von Neumann Theory Prize. He was born to a Jewish family in New York City. His results are staples of discrete optimization.
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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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