Abraham Charnes

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Abraham Charnes (born September 4, 1917 in Hopewell (Virginia) , † December 19, 1992 ) was an American mathematician who dealt with operations research and business administration. He was Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at the University of Texas at Austin .

Charnes studied at the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in 1938, a master's degree in 1939 and a doctorate on a topic of aerodynamics with David Bourgin in 1947 (Wing-Body Interaction in Linear Supersonic Flow). During World War II, he did research on operations research for the US Navy (for which he received the US Navy Distinguished Public Service Medal). He was a professor of applied mathematics at Northwestern University and from 1968 at the University of Texas at Austin (Jesse H. Jones Professor and later John P. Harbin Professor in the College of Business Administration).

In the 1950s he developed algorithms for the transport problem .

In 2006 he and William W. Cooper received the INFORMS Impact Prize for their work on data envelope analysis . The CCR model developed by Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes in 1978 is named after them. In 1982 he received the John von Neumann Theory Prize with Cooper and Richard Duffin . He received the Harold Lardner Memorial Award from the Canadian Operations Research Society. In 1975 he was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Carlton E. Lemke is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

  • with WW Cooper, A. Henderson: An introduction to linear programming, Wiley 1953 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Japanese)
    • from him in Part 2: Lectures on the mathematical theory of linear programming
  • with WW Cooper: Management models and industrial applications of linear programming, 2 volumes, Wiley 1961
  • Editor: Data envelopment analysis: theory, methodology, and application, Kluwer 1994
  • with WW Cooper, RJ Niehaus: Studies in manpower planning, Washington DC, Office of Civilian Manpower Management, Dept. of the Navy, 1972

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abraham Charnes in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Charnes, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Hopewell (Virginia)
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1992