Mathematician:Theodore Samuel Motzkin

Mathematician

German-born Israeli-American mathematician who was one of the pioneers of linear programming.

Also published in the fields of algebra, graph theory, approximation theory, combinatorics, numerical analysis, algebraic geometry and number theory.

Worked as a cryptographer for the British government during World War II.

Nationality

German-born, later Israeli-American

History

• Born: 26 March 1908 in Berlin, Germany
• Died: 15 December 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Theorems and Definitions

• Motzkin Transposition Theorem
• Motzkin Numbers
• Fourier-Motzkin Elimination (with Joseph Fourier)

Publications

• 1953: On the derivative of a polynomial and Chebyshev approximation (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 4, no. 1: pp. 76 – 87) (with J.L. Walsh)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Theodore Samuel Motzkin": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive