Richard Cottle
Richard Warren Cottle (born June 29, 1934 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American mathematician who deals with operations research and linear algebra . He was a professor at Stanford University .
Education and career
Cottle studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and a master's degree in 1958. He received his doctorate in 1964 from the University of California, Berkeley under George Dantzig (Nonlinear programming with positively bounded Jacobians).
From 1964 to 1966 he was at Bell Laboratories . In 1969 he became Associate Professor and in 1973 Professor of Operations Research at Stanford. From 1990 to 1996 he headed the Faculty for Operations Research . In 1968 he introduced the linear complementarity problem with George Dantzig .
Jong-Shi Pang is one of his PhD students . He was an Arthur Anderson Distinguished Visitor at the University of Cambridge .
He has been married since 1959 and has two daughters and a son.
Awards and honors
Fonts
- with Jong-Shi Pang, Richard E. Stone: The Linear Complementarity Problem, Academic Press 1992, SIAM 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Richard Cottle in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Frederick W. Lanchester Prize. (No longer available online.) Informs.org ( Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences ), archived from the original on October 2, 2015 ; accessed on February 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cottle, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cottle, Richard Warren (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |