Abraham Charnes (September 4, 1917 – December 19, 1992) was an American mathematician who worked in the area of

operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

. Charnes published more than 200 research articles and seven books, including ''An Introduction to Linear Programming''. His works influenced the development of

Data envelopment analysis Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric method in operations research and economics for the estimation of production frontiers.Charnes et al (1978) DEA has been applied in a large range of fields including international banking, econom ...

(DEA) method. In his 1953 article with William W. Cooper he developed the

chance constrained programming Chance Constrained Programming (CCP) is a mathematical optimization approach used to handle problems under uncertainty. It was first introduced by Charnes and Cooper in 1959 and further developed by Miller and Wagner in 1965. CCP is widely used in ...

method for solving optimization problems in the presence of uncertainty. Charnes received his bachelor's degree in 1938, master's degree in 1939, and PhD degree (with a thesis entitled ''Wing-Body Interaction in Linear Supersonic Flow'') in 1947 from the University of Illinois. Charnes taught at the

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, and at the

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since 1968. In 1975 Charnes was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in economics. In 1982 he was awarded (jointly with William W. Cooper and Richard Duffin) the John von Neumann Theory Prize. In 1989 he received the Harold Larnder Prize of the Canadian Operations Research Society. In 2006 he received (jointly with William W. Cooper) the

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Impact Prize. Charnes also received the Distinguished Public Service medal from the U.S. Navy for his contributions as a research physicist and operations analyst during World War II.

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Biography of Abraham Charnes
from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) {{DEFAULTSORT:Charnes, Abraham 20th-century American mathematicians 1917 births John von Neumann Theory Prize winners 1992 deaths Fellows of the Econometric Society

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