Optimization / Mathematical Programming Slideshow

Alphabetically and from left to right, Charles Broyden, Roger Fletcher, Donald Goldfarb and David Shanno, for whom the BFGS nonlinear optimization update step is named, at the NATO Advanced Research Institute on Nonlinear Optimization, Cambridge University, in Cambridge, England, July 1981. (photo provided by Richard Cottle.)

Tjalling Koopmans, George Dantzig, and Leonid Kantorovich.   Koopmans and Kantorovich shared the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, for contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources.  According to many published accounts, Koopmans was so upset that Dantzig was not included in the 1975 award that he considered turning down the honor.