Herbert Scarf
Herb Scarf | |
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Born | Herbert Eli Scarf July 25, 1930 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | November 15, 2015 Sag Harbor, New York, U.S. | (aged 85)
Academic career | |
Institution | Yale University |
Field | Economics, Mathematics |
Alma mater | Temple University (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Salomon Bochner |
Doctoral students | |
Awards | John von Neumann Theory Prize (1983) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Herbert Eli "Herb" Scarf (July 25, 1930 – November 15, 2015) was an American mathematical economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University.
Education and career
Scarf was born in Philadelphia, the son of Jewish emigrants from Ukraine and Russia, Lene (Elkman) and Louis Scarf.[1] During his undergraduate work he finished in the top 10 of the 1950 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the major mathematics competition between universities across the United States and Canada. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1954, supervised by Salomon Bochner.[2]
Contributions
Among his notable works is a seminal paper in
Recognition
Scarf received the 1973 Frederick W. Lanchester Award for his contribution The Computation of Economic Equilibria with the collaboration of Terje Hansen, which pioneered the use of numeric
References
- ^ Roberts, Sam (November 21, 2015). "Herbert Scarf, an Economist's Mathematician, Dies at 85 (Published 2015)". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Herbert Scarf at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Fellows: Alphabetical List, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, archived from the original on 2019-05-10, retrieved 2019-10-09
- ^ "Herbert Eli Scarf". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
- ^ "Herbert E. Scarf". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
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