In 1975, Leonid Kantorovich won the Noble Prize in Economics.
Real Name: Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich.
Date of Birth: 19 January 1912.
Died: 7 April 1986.
Nationality: Soviet.
Country: Soviet Union.
Education: Leningrad State University.
Known as: Linear programming, Kantorovich theorem, normed vector lattice (Kantorovich space), Kantorovich metric, Kantorovich inequality, approximation theory, iterative methods, functional analysis, numerical analysis, and scientific computing.
Profession: Mathematician and Economist.
Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1972).
Fields: Mathematics.
