What is Leonid Kantorovich?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Leonid Kantorovich | image = Leonid Kantorovich 1975.jpg | image_size = 180px | caption = Leonid Kantorovich in 1975 | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1912|1|19}} | birth_place = [[Saint Petersburg, Russia|Saint Petersburg]], [[Russian Empire]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1986|4|7|1912|1|19}} | death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union|USSR]] |resting_place = [[Novodevichy Cemetery]], [[Moscow]] | nationality = [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] | field = [[Mathematics]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Grigorii Mikhailovich Fichtenholz|Grigorii Fichtenholz]] <br> [[Vladimir Smirnov (mathematician)|Vladimir Smirnov]] | doctoral_students = [[Svetlozar Rachev]] | workplaces = Institute of National Economic Planning 1971–76 <br />[[USSR Academy of Sciences]] 1961–71<br />[[Leningrad State University]] 1934–60 | alma_mater = [[Leningrad State University]] | known_for = [[Linear programming]]<br />[[Kantorovich theorem]] <br /> [[Riesz space|normed vector lattice (Kantorovich space)]]<br />[[Kantorovich metric]]<br />[[Kantorovich inequality]] <br />[[approximation theory]]<br />[[iterative methods]]<br />[[functional analysis]]<br />[[numerical analysis]]<br />[[scientific computing]] | prizes = [[Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]] (1975) | module = {{Infobox Economist | child = yes | repec_prefix = e | repec_id = pka32}} }} {{nobelprize|Economics}}'''Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich''' ({{lang-rus|Леони́д Вита́льевич Канторо́вич||p=lʲɪɐˈnʲit vʲɪˈtalʲɪvʲɪtɕ kəntɐˈrovʲɪtɕ|a=Ru-Leonid_Vitaliyevich_Kantorovich.ogg}}) (19 January 1912{{spaced ndash}}7 April 1986) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[mathematician]] and [[economist]]. He was the winner of the [[State Stalin Prize|Stalin Prize]] in 1949 and the [[Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences]] in 1975. After 1960, Kantorovich lived and worked in [[Novosibirsk]], where he created and took charge of the Department of Computational Mathematics in [[Novo