Arthur Veinott
Arthur F. "Pete" Veinott Junior (born October 12, 1934 in Boston , † December 12, 2012 in Stanford (California) ) was an American mathematician who is engaged in mathematical optimization and operations research .
Veinott graduated from Lehigh University with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering in 1956 and received his PhD from Columbia University in 1960 with Cyrus Derman (Optimal Ordering, Issuing, and Disposal of Inventory with Known Demand). He then worked as a logistics analyst for the US Air Force before becoming a professor at Stanford University in 1962 . From 1975 to 1985 he was chairman of the Faculty for Operations Research and in 2009 he retired.
He dealt in particular with lattice programming, dynamic programming , Markov decision-making processes, inventory theory.
In 2007 he received the John von Neumann Theory Prize . He was the founder of the journal Mathematics of Operations Research . In 1978/79 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . He was a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics , INFORMS, and the National Academy of Engineering .
Fonts
- Editor with George Dantzig : Mathematics of the Decision Sciences, 2 volumes, American Mathematical Society 1968
- Editor: Mathematical studies in management science, Macmillan 1965
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arthur Veinott in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Veinott, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Veinott, Arthur F .; Veinott, Pete (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 2012 |
| Place of death | Stanford (California) |