Martin J. Beckmann

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Martin Josef Beckmann (born July 5, 1924 in Ratingen ; † April 11, 2017 ) was a German economist whose work deals, among other things, with business mathematics , operations research and regional and transport economics. He held professorships at Brown University , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Technical University of Munich . In 1957, Tjalling C. Koopmans and Beckmann formulated a variant of the quadratic assignment problem relevant to location theory , also known as the Koopmans-Beckmann problem .

academic career

Beckmann first studied mathematics and physics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1950 he received his doctorate in economics under Walter Eucken at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . As an assistant to Leonhard Miksch , he dealt for the first time with regional economics (in the form of German spatial economics), which shaped his further academic career.

At the end of 1950 he went to the University of Chicago as a postdoctoral fellow, at which time the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics , an influential research group led by Tjalling C. Koopmans, was also based. From 1955 to 1956 Beckmann was a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University before moving to Yale University , which is now home to the Cowles Commission. Beckmann finally became a professor at Brown University in 1959. In addition to this position, he received a chair for econometrics and business research at the University of Bonn in 1963, and in 1969 he accepted a call from the Technical University of Munich, where he continued to be a professor at Brown University. In 1989 he was at both universities emeritus .

Numerous well-known students emerged from Beckmann's academic environment, such as Karl Mosler and others

Awards and honors

Beckmann received various awards, including the Founder's Medal of the Regional Science Association in 1983 and the August Lösch Ring of Honor from the city of Heidenheim an der Brenz in 1998 . The University of Karlsruhe , the University of Umeå and the University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 1958 he became an elected member ( Fellow ) of the Econometric Society .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Martin J. Beckmann: Economic order and distribution . Düsseldorf 1949, DNB  481808205 , OCLC 74030450 (Dissertation University of Freiburg, Faculty of Law and Political Science, July 15, 1950, 90 sheets, [typescript]).
  • Martin J. Beckmann, C. Bartlett McGuire, Christopher B. Winsten: Studies in the Economics of Transportation . Yale University Press, New Haven 1956.
  • Martin J. Beckmann: Linear planning calculation: Linear programming (=  Economics of the Present I: Planning Research . Volume 1 ). Specialized publisher for economic theory and econometrics, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959.
  • Martin J. Beckmann: Location Theory . Random House, New York 1968.
  • Martin J. Beckmann, Hans P. Künzi : Mathematics for Economists I: Differential calculus and integral calculus of functions of a variable (=  Heidelberger Taschenbücher . Volume 56 ). Springer, Berlin a. a. 1969.
  • Martin J. Beckmann, Hans P. Künzi: Mathematics for Economists II: Linear Algebra (=  Heidelberg Pocket Books . Volume 117 ). Springer, Berlin a. a. 1973.
  • Martin J. Beckmann, Hans P. Künzi: Mathematics for Economists III: Analysis in Several Variables (=  Heidelberg Pocket Books . Volume 235 ). Springer, Berlin a. a. 1984.
  • Martin J. Beckmann, Tõnu Puu: Spatial Economics: Potential, Density, and Flow (=  Studies in Regional Science and Urban Economics . Volume 14 ). North Holland, Amsterdam / New York 1985.
  • Dieter Bartmann, Martin J. Beckmann: Storage: Models and Methods . Springer, Berlin a. a. 1989, ISBN 978-3-642-74786-1 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-74786-1 .

Essays

  • Martin J. Beckmann: A Continuous Model of Transportation . In: Econometrica . tape 20 , no. 4 , 1952, pp. 643-660 , doi : 10.2307 / 1907646 .
  • Tjalling C. Koopmans, Martin Beckmann: Assignment Problems and the Location of Economic Activities . In: Econometrica . tape 25 , no. 1 , 1957, pp. 53-76 , doi : 10.2307 / 1907742 .
  • Martin J. Beckmann: City Hierarchies and the Distribution of City Size . In: Economic Development and Cultural Change . tape 3 , no. 3 , 1958, pp. 243-248 .
  • Martin J. Beckmann: On the Distribution of Urban Rent and Residential Density . In: Journal of Economic Theory . tape 1 , no. 1 , 1967, p. 60-67 , doi : 10.1016 / 0022-0531 (69) 90012-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin J. Beckmann's obituary notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 27, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ Martin J. Beckmann 80 years of TUM Mitteilungen 3 - 2004. pp. 54–55.
  3. ^ David E. Boyce: Martin J. Beckmann: Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award in Transportation Science . In: Transportation Science . tape 28 , no. 3 , 1994, p. 177-179 , doi : 10.1287 / trsc.28.3.177 .
  4. ^ Walter Isard , David E. Boyce: Founder's medal: Martin J. Beckmann . In: Papers in Regional Science . tape 57 , 1985, pp. 1-2 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01935275 .
  5. ↑ Centrum för regionalvetenskap (Cerum) / Hedersdoktorer ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 16, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cerum.umu.se
  6. ↑ Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences / Honorary Doctors ( Memento from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 16, 2016)
  7. ^ Econometric Society Fellows, October 2016 (accessed December 28, 2016)

further reading

  • H. Hauptmann, W. Krelle, KC Mosler (Ed.): Operations Research and Economic Theory: Essays in Honor of Martin J. Beckmann . Springer, Berlin a. a. 1984, ISBN 978-3-540-13652-1 .
  • TR Lakshmanan, Peter Nijkamp (Ed.): Structure and Change in the Space Economy: Festschrift in Honor of Martin J. Beckmann . Springer, Berlin a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-540-56490-X .
  • Gordon F. Mulligan: Martin Beckmann (1924-2017): Polymath Theorist . In: Peter Batey, David Plane (Eds.): Great Minds in Regional Science . tape 1 . Springer, 2020, ISBN 978-3-03046156-0 , pp. 137–151 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-030-46157-7_9 .
personal data
SURNAME Beckmann, Martin J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckmann, Martin Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratingen , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2017