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Science & Medicine
David Yudin
Who
David Yudin · Science & Medicine
What
Optimization; the ellipsoid method
When
1919, Dnipropetrovsk, Soviet Union (now Dnipro, Ukraine)
Where
Soviet Union · Russia
Biography
David Yudin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Optimization; the ellipsoid method
How & why
David Yudin was a Soviet mathematician who, with Arkadi Nemirovski, developed the ellipsoid method for convex optimization in the 1970s — later famous for yielding the first polynomial-time algorithm for linear programming — and co-founded the mirror-descent method. He was Jewish.
Sources & external links
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Contributions & Sources
Optimization; the ellipsoid method
1919
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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