Egon Balas
Egon Balas · Technology & Engineering
Holocaust survivor who founded disjunctive programming in integer optimization; von Neumann Theory Prize (1995)
1922, Cluj, Romania — 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Romania · United States
Egon Balas is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Holocaust survivor who founded disjunctive programming in integer optimization; von Neumann Theory Prize (1995)
Balas was a Carnegie Mellon mathematician who founded disjunctive programming, now a central tool in integer and combinatorial optimization, and won the 1995 von Neumann Theory Prize. Born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, he survived Nazi-era imprisonment (escaping the fascist authorities) and later Stalinist imprisonment, recounted in his memoir 'Will to Freedom.'
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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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