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Abraham Charnes

American mathematician and economist · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1917 to 1992 · aged 75

Abraham Charnes was an American mathematician who worked in the area of operations research. Charnes published more than 200 research articles and seven books, including An Introduction to Linear Programming. His works influenced the development of Data envelopment analysis (DEA) method.

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1992Died19 December 19921989Harold Larnder PrizeAward1982John von Neumann Theory PrizeAward1959Fellow of the Econometric SocietyAward1917Born4 September 1917

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Awards

Harold Larnder Prize1989
John von Neumann Theory Prize1982
Fellow of the Econometric Society1959

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In his 1953 article with William W. Cooper he developed the chance constrained programming method for solving optimization problems in the presence of uncertainty.

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1917 to 1992 · aged 75