Leonid Khachiyan was a Russian mathematician who taught Computer Science at Rutgers University. He was most famous for his Ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time. Even though this algorithm was shown to be impractical due to the high degree of the polynomial in its running time, … Wikipedia
Leonid G. Khachiyan of South Brunswick, N.J., professor of computer science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, died suddenly of a heart attack on Friday, April 29 at the age of 52. www.cs.rutgers.edu/Khachiyan/
Leonid Khachiyan died of a heart attack on April 29, a few days before his 53rd birthday, in South Brunswick, New Jersey. He is survived by his wife of 20 years, Olga Pischikova Reynberg, and teenage daughters Anna and Nina, student and student-to-be at www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=197
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