John von Neumann Theory Prize (1995), EURO Gold Medal (2001), Hungarian Academy of Science (external member, 2004), Honorary Doctorate in Mathematics (University of Waterloo, 2005)
Scientific career
Fields
Applied Mathematics
Institutions
Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business
Doctoral advisor
Robert Fortet
Egon Balas (June 7, 1922 in Cluj, Romania – March 18, 2019)[1] was an applied mathematician and a professor of industrial administration and applied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business and did fundamental work in developing integer and disjunctive programming.[2]
^"Remembering Egon Balas". Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^* Graham K. Rand: Egon Balas, Profiles in Operations Research (eds.: A.A. Asad, S.L. Gass), International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, 147, Springer, 2011.
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