Philip Wolfe
Philip Starr "Phil" Wolfe (born August 11, 1927 in San Francisco ; † December 29, 2016 ) was an American mathematician who dealt with mathematical optimization and operations research .
Wolfe studied interrupted from military service at the University of California, Berkeley , where he earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1948 and master's degree and received his doctorate in 1954 under Ed Bracken on game theory . As early as 1951, he was doing a summer job in an Operations Research Group of the US Air Force led by George Dantzig (which had previously drawn up plans for the logistics of the Berlin Airlift). From 1954 he was an instructor at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study , where he worked on generalizations of linear programming and quadratic and nonlinear optimization. The Frank-Wolfe algorithm for convex optimization was developed there with Margerite Frank. He also tried programming the IAS computer, which, however, still had to be programmed in binary in the mid-1950s, and was therefore, as Wolfe described in an oral history interview, of little use for Wolfe's purposes. In 1957 he went to the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, where he worked with George Dantzig (Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition). He programmed linear optimization problems as the successor to William Orchard-Hays (at Johnniac and on an IBM 704 ). As a programmer, he introduced the first Fortran programs at Rand and worked, among other things, on George Stigler's diet problem (ingredients for a diet with minimal costs) with applications in agriculture. In 1965 he worked as a freelancer at IBM in Zurich and the Rand Corporation. From 1966 he was at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center , where he was deputy head of mathematical research from 1968. He was also a professor at Columbia University from 1968 to 1977 .
In 1992 he received the John von Neumann Theory Prize . From 1978 to 1980 he was director of the Mathematical Programming Society. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
He had been married to Hallie Flanigan since 1968 and had one daughter.
Fonts
- with George Dantzig: Decomposition Principle for Linear Programs , Operations Research, Volume 8, 1960, pp. 101-111.
- with Marguerite Frank: An algorithm for quadratic programming , Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, Volume 3, 1956, p. 95
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ Philip S. Wolfe, Mathematician, of Ossining, 89
- ↑ See web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolfe, Philip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolfe, Philip Starr; Wolfe, Phil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 2016 |