Rockafellar, R. Tyrrell, 1935-

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Name (Latin)
Rockafellar, R. Tyrrell, 1935-
Other forms of name
Rockafellar, R. T. (R. Tyrrell), 1935-
Rockafellar, Ralph Tyrrell, 1935-
Rokafellar, R., 1935-
Date of birth
1935-02-10
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 39437521
Wikidata: Q2129819
Library of congress: n 82019844
HAI10: 000238801
Sources of Information
  • His Convex analysis, 1970.
  • His The theory of subgradients and its applications to problems of optimization, 1981:t.p. (R. T. Rockafellar)
  • Variational analysis, 1997:CIP t.p. (R. Tyrrell Rockafellar) t.p. verso (Univ. of Washington, Dept. of Mathematics, Seattle, WA) data sheet (b. Feb. 10, 1935)
  • HIs Vypuklyĭ analiz, 1973:t.p. (R. Rokafellar)
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Wikipedia description:

Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar (born February 10, 1935) is an American mathematician and one of the leading scholars in optimization theory and related fields of analysis and combinatorics. He is the author of four major books including the landmark text "Convex Analysis" (1970), which has been cited more than 27,000 times according to Google Scholar and remains the standard reference on the subject, and "Variational Analysis" (1998, with Roger J-B Wets) for which the authors received the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He is professor emeritus at the departments of mathematics and applied mathematics at the University of Washington, Seattle.

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