Donald Goldfarb
Donald Goldfarb (born August 14, 1941 in New York City)[1] is an American mathematician, best known for his works in mathematical optimization and numerical analysis.
Biography
Goldfarb studied Chemical Engineering at Cornell University, earning a BSChE in 1963. He obtained an M.S. from Princeton University in 1965, and a doctorate in 1966.[2]
After getting his Ph.D., Goldfarb spent two years as a post-doc at the
In 1968, he co-founded the CS Department at
He is one of the developers of the
Awards
Goldfarb is National Academy of Engineering (NAE) member and SIAM Fellow. He was awarded the INFORMS John Von Neumann Theory Prize in 2017, the Khachiyan Prize in 2013, the INFORMS Prize for Research Excellence in the Interface between OR and CS in 1995, and was listed in The Worlds Most Influential Scientific Minds, 2014, as being among the 99 most cited mathematicians between 2002 and 2012. Goldfarb has served as an editor-in-chief of Mathematical Programming, an editor of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis and the SIAM Journal on Optimization, and as an associate editor of Mathematics of Computation, Operations Research and Mathematical Programming Computation.
References
- ^ American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ "Donakd Gokdfarb fsvulty homepage", Columbia University School of Engineering. Accessed February 16, 2022.
- JSTOR 2004873.
- S2CID 25000105.