Mathematician:Carlton Edward Lemke

Mathematician
American mathematician, working in Algebra, Mathematical Programming, Operations Research, and Statistics.

Also contributed to game theory.

Developed the dual simplex method in $1954$, independently from.

With, Constructed an algorithm in $1964$ for finding Nash equilibria the case of finite two-person games, for which he received the John von Neumann Theory Prize in $1978$.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: October 11, 1920 in Buffalo, New York
 * 1949: Bachelor's degree from University of Buffalo
 * 1952 -- 1954: Instructor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology
 * 1953: Received Ph.D. at Carnegie Institute of Technology
 * 1954 -- 1955: Instructor at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory of General Electric
 * 1955 -- 1956: Engineer at Radio Corporation of America in New Jersey
 * 1956: Assistant professor and later professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 * 1967: Ford Foundation Professor of Mathematics
 * 1978: Received John von Neumann Theory Prize
 * Died: April 12, 2004 in Tucson, Arizona

Theorems and Definitions

 * Lemke-Howson Algorithm (with )

Publications


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