Harold W. Kuhn

Harold W. Kuhn
Born(1925-07-29)July 29, 1925
DiedJuly 2, 2014(2014-07-02) (aged 88)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University
Known forHungarian method
Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions
Kuhn poker
AwardsJohn von Neumann Theory Prize (1980)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Doctoral advisorRalph Fox
Doctoral studentsJames G. MacKinnon
Guillermo Owen
Richard Stearns

Harold William Kuhn (July 29, 1925 – July 2, 2014) was an American mathematician who studied game theory. He won the 1980 John von Neumann Theory Prize jointly with David Gale and Albert W. Tucker. A former Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University, he is known for the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, for Kuhn's theorem, and for developing Kuhn poker. He described the Hungarian method for the assignment problem, but a paper by Carl Gustav Jacobi, published posthumously in 1890 in Latin, was later discovered that had described the Hungarian method a century before Kuhn.[1][2]

  1. ^ Ollivier, F.; Sadik, B. (2007). "La borne de Jacobi pour une diffiete' definie par un systeme quasi regulier". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris. 345 (3): 139–144. arXiv:math/0701838. doi:10.1016/j.crma.2007.06.010.
  2. ^ Harold W. Kuhn, The Hungarian Method for the Assignment Problem and how Jacobi beat me by 100 Years, Seminar, Concordia University, September 12, 2006