Gijsbert (Gijs) de Leve (15 August 1926 – 19 November 2009) was a Dutch

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

and

operations research Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve dec ...

er, known for his work on Markov decision process. Gijs de Leve is considered the founder of operations research in the Netherlands.

Biography

Born in Amsterdam De Leve received his MA in Mathematics and Physics in 1954 at the

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. There he also received his PhD cum laude in 1964 for the thesis ''Generalized Markovian decision processes'', advised by Jan Hemelrijk and

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.. De Leve was appointed Professor Operations research, in particular management scientific applications at the University of Amsterdam in 1972.Prof. dr. G. de Leve, 1926
– on albumacademicum.uva.nl, 2013. Among his doctorate students were

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(1972),

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(1976),

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(1976), P. Weeda (1978),

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(1978), Antoon Kolen (1982), Roy Jonker (1986), Anton Volgenant (1987), Jeroen de Kort (1992), Erik H.J. van der Sluis (1993), Nanda Piersma (1993) and Cees Duin (1994). He retired from the University of Amsterdam 1 September 1991. In honor of De Leve in 1997 the Gijs de Leve prize is initiated for the best PhD thesis in the area of Mathematics of Operations.

Publications

* ''Overzicht van een aantal artikelen over "Operations Research". Volume 1. G. de Leve, Jacobus Kriens, 1955. * ''Enige statistische aspecten van de factoranalyse''. G. de Leve, 1956 * ''Operations research: Inleidende voorbeelden. Hoofdstuk 1''. J. Kriens, G. de Leve, 1959 * ''Oriënterende cursus mathematische besliskunde''. G. de Leve, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum. Afdeling Mathematische Statistiek, 1962. * ''Generalized Markovian decision processes – Deel 2''. G. de Leve, 1964 * ''Generalized Markovian Decision Processes: Model and method''. Gijs de Leve, 1964 * ''Inleiding in de besliskunde''. G. de Leve, J.C. van Dalen, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, 1970 ;Articles, a selection: * Leve, Gijsbert. "Wie beslist er eigenlijk*." Statistica Neerlandica 20.2 (1966): 155–169. * De Leve, Gijsbert,

, and

Hendrik C. Tijms Henk Tijms (Beverwijk, April 23, 1944) is a Dutch mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Operations Research at the VU University Amsterdam. He studied mathematics in Amsterdam where he graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 1972 under su ...

.
A general Markov decision method I: model and techniques
" ''Advances in Applied Probability'' (1977): 296–315. * Federgruen, A. "Some approximation approaches in large-scale." Twenty-five years of operations research in the Netherlands: papers dedicated to Gijs de Leve 70 (1989): 35.

References

External links

Prof. dr. G. de Leve, 1926 - 2009
on the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum {{DEFAULTSORT:Leve, Gijsbert de 1926 births 2009 deaths Dutch mathematicians Dutch operations researchers University of Amsterdam alumni University of Amsterdam faculty Scientists from Amsterdam