Harold W. Kuhn | |
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| Born | July 29, 1925 |
| Died | July 2, 2014 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Known for | Hungarian method Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions Kuhn poker |
| Awards | John von Neumann Theory Prize (1980) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Ralph Fox |
| Doctoral students | James 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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Harold W. Kuhn, The Hungarian Method for the Assignment Problem and how Jacobi beat me by 100 Years, Seminar, Concordia University, September 12, 2006