Harold W. Kuhn

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American mathematician game theorist human mathematician university teacher

Harold W. Kuhn was an American mathematician and game theorist best known for his work on nonlinear programming and the Kuhn–Tucker conditions.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American mathematician → game theorist → human → mathematician → university teacher →
areaOfActivity	academic research → higher education →
awardReceived	John von Neumann Theory Prize →
coAuthor	A. W. Tucker → Albert W. Tucker → David Gale →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
doctoralAdvisor	Albert W. Tucker →
educatedAt	Princeton University →
employer	Princeton University →
familyName	Kuhn →
fieldOfWork	game theory → mathematics → nonlinear programming → operations research → optimization →
gender	male →
givenName	Harold →
influenced	research in nonlinear optimization → the development of modern game theory →
influencedBy	Albert W. Tucker → John von Neumann → Oskar Morgenstern →
knownFor	Kuhn–Tucker conditions → Kuhn’s theorem in extensive-form games → contributions to game theory → editing von Neumann and Morgenstern’s “Theory of Games and Economic Behavior” → work in nonlinear programming →
languageSpoken	English →
memberOf	American Mathematical Society → Econometric Society →
name	Harold W. Kuhn →
notableConcept	Kuhn–Tucker conditions → Kuhn’s theorem → reduced game in extensive-form games →
notableWork	“Classics in Game Theory” (editor) → “Contributions to the Theory of Games” (editor) → “Extensive Games and the Problem of Information” → “Nonlinear Programming” →
occupation	game theorist → mathematician → university professor →
positionHeld	professor of mathematics at Princeton University →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Albert W. Tucker →	coAuthor
Albert W. Tucker →	doctoralStudent
Harold W. Kuhn →	name
Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions →	namedAfter
Albert W. Tucker →	notableStudent