Harold William Coon ( July 29, 1925 , Santa Monica , California , USA - July 2, 2014 , New York , USA) - a famous American mathematician , a specialist in game theory . 1980 John von Neumann Award Winner with Albert Tucker and David Gale. Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University , is known as the author of the Kuhn theorem, Kuhn poker, and also as co-author of the Kuhn – Tucker condition . He gave a description of the Hungarian algorithm for solving the assignment problem . Some time ago, however, it was discovered that the Hungarian algorithm was first formulated by Karl Gustav Jacobi and was published posthumously in Latin among his other papers in 1890 [4] [5] .
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Biography
Coon was born in Santa Monica in 1925 [6] . Throughout his academic life, starting with graduate school, he was closely associated with John Nash . Harold Kun played a large role in attracting the attention of the Nobel Committee to the work of Nash, for which he eventually received the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics [7] . Both of them have long and fruitfully collaborated with Albert Tucker , Nash's supervisor of studies. Harold co-authored The Essential John Nash [8] and a mathematical consultant in the biographical film Mind Games (2001) [9] , which tells the story of John Nash.
He was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
The eldest son, historian Clifford Coon (1952-2015), is known for a scholarship to the American South and as a collector of oral histories. Middle, Nick Coon is a professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia [10] . The youngest son, Jonathan Coon, is director of the Arts and Antiquities department at the New York City Department of Parks and Leisure.
He died on July 2, 2014 [11] .
Bibliography
- Kuhn, HW The Hungarian method for the assignment problem (English) // Naval Research Logistics Quarterly : journal. - 1955. - Vol. 2 . - P. 83–97 . - DOI : 10.1002 / nav . 3800020109 .
- Republished. The Hungarian method for the assignment problem (English) // Naval Research Logistics : journal. - 2005. - Vol. 52 , no. 1 . - P. 7-21 . - DOI : 10.1002 / nav.20053 .
- Guillermo Owen (2004) IFORS 'Operational Research Hall of Fame Harold Kuhn International Transactions in Operational Research 11 (6), 715-718. DOI : 10.1111 / j.1475-3995.2004.00486 .
- Harold Kun. "Classics in Game Theory." (Princeton University Press, 1997). ISBN 978-0-691-01192-9 .
- Harold Kun. "Linear Inequalities and Related Systems (AM-38)" (Princeton University Press, 1956). ISBN 978-0-691-07999-8 . [12]
- Harold Kuhn, Albert Tucker et al. "Contributions to the Theory of Games, I (AM-24)." (Princeton University Press, 1950). ISBN 978-0-691-07934-9 . [13]
- Harold Kun. Contributions to the Theory of Games, II (AM-28). "(Princeton University Press, 1953). ISBN 978-0-691-07935-6 . [14]
- Harold Kun. "Lectures on the Theory of Games." (Princeton University Press, 2003). ISBN 978-0-691-02772-2 .
- Harold Kun, Sylvia Nazar. '' The Essential John Nash '' (Princeton University Press, 2001). ISBN 978-0-691-09527-1 .
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 107597780 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Solomon Guggenheim Museum - 1937.
- ↑ Ollivier, F. La borne de Jacobi pour une diffiete 'definie par un systeme quasi regulier (French) // Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris : magazine. - 2007. - Vol. 345 , n o 3 . - P. 139-144 . - DOI : 10.1016 / j.crma.2007.06.06.010 .
- ↑ Harold W. Kuhn, The Hungarian Method for the Assignment Problem and how Jacobi beat me by 100 Years, Seminar, Concordia University, September 12, 2006
- ↑ Siegfried Gottwald , Hans J. Ilgauds, Karl H. Schlote (Hrsg.): Lexikon bedeutender Mathematiker . Verlag Harri Thun, Frankfurt a. M. 1990 ISBN 3-8171-1164-9
- ↑ The Times Higher Education Supplement: The autumnal sadness of the Princeton ghost
- ↑ The Essential John Nash, edited by Harold W. Kuhn & Sylvia Nasar, Princeton University Press
- ↑ Harold Kuhn, consultant: Princeton
- ↑ Nick Kuhn, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia Archived March 10, 2009.
- ↑ Professor Emeritus Harold W. Kuhn died on July 2, 2014 . math.princeton.edu (July 3, 2014). Archived July 15, 2014.
- ↑ Motzkin, Theodore S. . Review: HW Kuhn and AW Tucker, Linear inequalities and related systems // Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. : journal. - 1957. - Vol. 63 , no. 3 . - P. 202-203 . - DOI : 10.1090 / s0002-9904-1957-10103-7 .
- ↑ Wolfowitz, J. . Review: Contributions to the theory of games , Vol. 1, ed. HW Kuhn and AW Tucker (Eng.) // Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. : journal. - 1951. - Vol. 57 , no. 6 . - P. 495-497 . - DOI : 10.1090 / s0002-9904-1951-09550-6 .
- ↑ Wolfowitz, J .; Wolfowitz, J. Review: Contributions to the theory of games , Vol. 2, ed. HW Kuhn and AW Tucker (Eng.) // Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. : journal. - 1954. - Vol. 60 , no. 1 . - P. 90-92 . - DOI : 10.1090 / s0002-9904-1954-09766-5 .
Links
- Kuhn, Harold (Eng.) In the project " Mathematical Genealogy " (eng.) In the project " Mathematical Genealogy "
- Princeton University Press: The Essential John Nash
- Collaboration with George Dantzig
- Biography of Harold Kuhn on the website of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences