Capítulo de livro

A Biography of Professor A. Charnes and His Scientific Work

1980; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-46414-0_1

ISSN

2196-9957

Autores

K. O. Kortanek,

Resumo

Abraham Charnes was born in Hopewell, Virginia on September 4, 1917, the son of Harry and Rebecca Charnes. At the age of six, the family moved to Chicago, whence he was graduated from Crane Technical High School in 1934. He entered the University of Illinois that fall on a Ceramic Engineering Scholarship of the Illinois Clay Manufacturers Association and the following spring began his undergraduate studies with D. G. Bourgin in partial differential equations, calculus of variations, fixed point theory and functional analysis. He studied algebra with Reinhold Baer.

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