Herbert Scarf
Herbert Scarf · Technology & Engineering
Devised the first algorithm for computing economic equilibria; von Neumann Theory Prize (1983)
1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — 2015, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
United States
Herbert Scarf is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Devised the first algorithm for computing economic equilibria; von Neumann Theory Prize (1983)
Scarf was a Yale economist who devised the first general algorithm for computing economic equilibria — the simplicial fixed-point methods that launched applied general-equilibrium analysis — and made foundational contributions to inventory theory; he won the von Neumann Theory Prize in 1983. He was of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant descent, born in Philadelphia.
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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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