| Philip Wolfe | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 August 1927 San Francisco |
| Died |
29 December 2016 (aged 89)[1] Ossining, New York |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Philip Starr "Phil" Wolfe (August 11, 1927 – December 29, 2016) was an American mathematician and one of the founders of convex optimization theory and mathematical programming.
Life[]
Wolfe received his bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.[2] He and his wife, Hallie, lived in Ossining, New York.[1]
Career[]
In 1954, he was offered an instructorship at Princeton, where he worked on generalizations of linear programming, such as quadratic programming and general non-linear programming, leading to the Frank-Wolfe algorithm[3] in joint work with Marguerite Frank, then a visitor at Princeton. He joined RAND corporation in 1957, where he worked with George Dantzig, resulting in the now well known Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition method.[4] In 1965, he moved to IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
Honors and awards[]
He received the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 1992, jointly with Alan Hoffman.
Selected publications[]
- Dantzig, George B.; Wolfe, Philip (February 1960). "Decomposition Principle for Linear Programs". pp. 101–111. Digital object identifier:10.1287/opre.8.1.101.
- Frank, M.; Wolfe, P. (1956). "An algorithm for quadratic programming". pp. 95. Digital object identifier:10.1002/nav.3800030109.
- Held, M.; Wolfe, P.; Crowder, H. P. (1974). "Validation of subgradient optimization". pp. 62. Digital object identifier:10.1007/BF01580223.
- Wolfe, P. (1959). "The Simplex Method for Quadratic Programming". pp. 382. Digital object identifier:10.2307/1909468. JSTOR 1909468.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Reif, Carol (3 January 2017). "Obituaries: Philip S. Wolfe, Mathematician, of Ossining, 89". Ossining Daily Voice. http://ossining.dailyvoice.com/obituaries/philip-s-wolfe-mathematician-of-ossining-89/694862/. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- ↑ Hoffman, A. J. (2011). "Philip Starr Wolfe". Profiles in Operations Research. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. 147. pp. 627–642. Digital object identifier:10.1007/978-1-4419-6281-2_34. ISBN 978-1-4419-6280-5.
- ↑ Frank, Marguerite; Wolfe, Philip (March 1956). "An algorithm for quadratic programming". pp. 95–110. Digital object identifier:10.1002/nav.3800030109.
- ↑ Pearce, Jeremy (23 May 2005). "George B. Dantzig Dies at 90; Devised Math Solution to Broad Problems". The New York Times. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Obits2/Dantzig_George_NYTimes.html. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
External Information[]
- INFORMS: Biography of Philip Wolfe from the Institute for Operations Research and the management Sciences
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