What is Egon Balas?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Egon Balas | image = BalasEgon.png | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1922|06|07}} | birth_place = [[Cluj, Romania|Cluj]], [[Kingdom of Romania]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|3|18|1922|06|07}} | death_place = [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], U.S. | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | ethnicity = | field = [[Applied Mathematics]] | work_institutions = [[Carnegie Mellon]]'s [[Tepper School of Business]] | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = [[Linear programming|Disjunctive programming]] | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | prizes = 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) | religion = | footnotes = }} '''Egon Balas''' (June 7, 1922 – March 18, 2019)<ref>{{cite web |title=Remembering Egon Balas |url=https://www.cmu.edu/tepper/news/stories/2019/march/egon-balas.html?hootPostID=6cde4cd465b0167e1b3c4ef18ca960f1 |access-date=20 March 2019 |archive-date=27 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327101400/https://www.cmu.edu/tepper/news/stories/2019/march/egon-balas.html?hootPostID=6cde4cd465b0167e1b3c4ef18ca960f1 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a Romanian [[Applied mathematics|applied mathematician]]. He was 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]]. He was known for his fundamental work in developing [[integer programming|integer and disjunctive programming]].<ref>* 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, S