Philip Wolfe (mathematician)

Philip Wolfe
Born(1927-08-11)August 11, 1927
San Francisco, California, U.S.
DiedDecember 29, 2016(2016-12-29) (aged 89)[1]
Ossining, New York, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
Thesis I.Games of Infinite Length; II.A Nondegenerate Formulation and Simplex Solution of Linear Programming Problems  (1954)
Doctoral advisorEdward William Barankin

Philip Starr "Phil" Wolfe (August 11, 1927 – December 29, 2016) was an American mathematician and one of the founders of convex optimization theory and mathematical programming.

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