Guan Meigu

Guan Meigu ( Chinese  管 梅 谷 , Pinyin Guǎn Méigǔ , also known as Kwan Mei-Ko in the English-speaking world ; * 1934 in Shanghai , China ) is a Chinese mathematician who deals with optimization and operations research .

Guan is best known for formulating the postman problem , which he formulated and researched as a lecturer at Shandong University in 1960 . From 1984 to 1990 he was President of Shandong University and from 1990 to 1995 Director of Operations Research at Fudan University in Shanghai. In 1995 he went to Australia to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology .

literature

• Martin Grötschel , Ya-Xiang Yuan Euler, Mei-Ko Kwan, Königsberg and a chinese postman , Documenta Mathematica, Extra Volume ISMP, 2012, 43–50, pdf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kwan, Programming method using odd or even points, Acta Mathematica 10, 1960, 263–266 (Chinese)
2. ^ Kwan, Graphic programming using odd or even points, Chinese Mathematics, 1, 1962, 273-277

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Guan is the family name here, Meigu is the first name.