Herbert Scarf

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Herbert Scarf was an influential American economist and mathematician known for his work on general equilibrium theory, fixed-point theorems, and integer programming.

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instanceOf academic
economist
human
mathematician
academicDegree PhD in mathematics
awardReceived Lanchester Prize
surface form: Frederick W. Lanchester Prize

John von Neumann Theory Prize
surface form: INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize

John von Neumann Theory Prize
coAuthor Terje Hansen
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1930-01-25
dateOfDeath 2015-11-15
doctoralAdvisor Salomon Bochner
educatedAt Princeton University
Temple University
employer RAND Corporation
Stanford University
Yale University
familyName Scarf
fieldOfWork economics
fixed-point theory
game theory
general equilibrium theory
integer programming
mathematics
operations research
gender male
givenName Herbert
influenced computational general equilibrium analysis
influencedBy Gérard Debreu
surface form: Gerard Debreu

Kenneth Arrow
knownFor Scarf’s lemma in game theory and economics
work on fixed-point theorems
work on general equilibrium theory
work on integer programming
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Econometric Society
National Academy of Sciences
name Herbert Scarf self-linksurface differs
surface form: Herbert Eli Scarf
nativeLanguage English
notableWork Scarf algorithm
Scarf’s lemma
The Computation of Economic Equilibria
placeOfBirth Philadelphia
surface form: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
placeOfDeath Sag Harbor, New York
surface form: Sag Harbor, New York, United States
positionHeld Professor of Economics at Yale University
Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University
workLocation New Haven, Connecticut
surface form: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Herbert Scarf name Herbert Scarf self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Herbert Eli Scarf