Mathematician Kantorovich

Leonid V. Kantorovich was born in the city of Leningrad in January of 1912 to a meager family. His father, Vitalij Kantorovich, died when Leonid was only 10 years old leaving his mother, Polina, to raise a child herself. Leonid grew up during violent times in Russia. During the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Leonid and his mother flew to Byelorussia to escape the bloodshed before returning to their home more than a year later (Kantorovich). Leonid was a …

…methods at the Siberian Division of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1971 he was appointed laboratory chief of the Institute of National Economic Management in Moscow. It is no surprise today that the life of the Soviet economy was greatly aided by Leonid Vitalevich Kantorovich's work in applied mathematics and economics. For the latter part of past century he was distinguished as being the foremost expert in the field of mathematical economics, which he conceived.