title: Naum Krasner
text: # Naum Krasner
  
  Naum Krasner (21 February 1924 – 5 March 1999) was a Russian mathematician and economist.
  
  A former colonel in the Soviet Army, he joined Voronezh State University as a student in 1957 and, on graduating in 1961, joined the faculty there. In 1969 he became Methods of Operational Research Chair and, later, vice-dean of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.
  
  