Alan J. Hoffman

Alan Jerome Hoffman (born May 30, 1924 in New York City ) is an American mathematician.

Hoffman served in the US Army from 1943 to 1946. He studied at Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in 1947 and a doctorate in mathematics in 1950 with Edgar Raymond Lorch (On the foundations of inversion geometry) In 1950/51 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study and then until 1956 as a mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards . In 1956/57 he was a scientific liaison officer at the Office of Naval Research in London and from 1957 to 1961 management advisor to General Electric . From 1961 he was at IBM in the Thomas J. Watson Research Center . In 2002 he retired there.

At the same time he was from 1965 to 1976 Adjunct Professor at the City University of New York . He was also an adjunct professor or visiting professor at Technion in 1965, at Yale University from 1975 to 1980 and 1991, at Stanford University from 1980 to 1991, at Rutgers University from 1990 to 1996 and at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1992 to 1993 .

Among other things, he dealt with linear algebra , linear optimization , graph theory , combinatorics and geometry. Hoffman holds seven patents on mathematical algorithms.

He was the founding editor of the journal Linear Algebra and its Applications .

In 1978 he became an IBM Fellow . He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (1982), the New York Academy of Sciences (1975) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987). In 1986 he received an honorary doctorate from the Technion . In 1992 he received the John von Neumann Theory Prize .

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SURNAME	Hoffman, Alan J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hoffman, Alan Jerome (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City , New York , United States