Naum Shor
Naum Shor · Technology & Engineering
Co-developed the ellipsoid method for convex optimization.
1937, Kyiv, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) — 2006, Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukraine
Naum Shor is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-developed the ellipsoid method for convex optimization.
Naum Zuselevich Shor was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician specializing in optimization who, in the mid-1970s and independently of Arkadi Nemirovski, developed the ellipsoid method for convex minimization — later famous as the basis for the first polynomial-time algorithm for linear programming. A full member of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences, he is documented among Jewish mathematicians.
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Co-developed the ellipsoid method for convex optimization.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
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