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Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar | |
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 R. Tyrrell ("Terry") Rockafellar in 1977 | |
| Born | February 10, 1935 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | Convex analysis Monotone operator Calculus of variation Stochastic programming Oriented matroid |
| Awards | Dantzig Prize of SIAM and MPS 1982 von Neumann citation of SIAM 1992 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of INFORMS 1998 John von Neumann Theory Prize of INFORMS 1999 Doctor Honoris Causa: Groningen, Montpellier, Chile, Alicante |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical optimization |
| Institutions | University of Washington 1966- University of Florida (adjunct) 2003- University of Texas, Austin 1963–1965 |
| Thesis | Convex Functions and Dual Extremum Problems (1963) |
| Doctoral advisor | Garrett Birkhoff |
| Notable students | Peter Wolenski Francis Clarke |
Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar (born February 10, 1935) is an American mathematician and one of the leading scholars in optimization theory and related fields of analysis and combinatorics. He is the author of four major books including the landmark text "Convex Analysis" (1970),[1] which has been cited more than 27,000 times according to Google Scholar and remains the standard reference on the subject, and "Variational Analysis" (1998, with Roger J-B Wets) for which the authors received the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
He is professor emeritus at the departments of mathematics and applied mathematics at the University of Washington, Seattle.
- ^ Rockafeller, Ralph Tyrell (12 January 1997). Convex Analysis: (PMS-28) (Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics and Physics, 18). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691015866.