Leonid Kantorovich

Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich () (19 January 19127 April 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and economist. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1975.
After 1960, Kantorovich lived and worked in Novosibirsk, where he created and took charge of the Department of Computational Mathematics in Novosibirsk State University.