Olvi L. Mangasarian
American mathematician
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| Intro | American mathematician | ||||
| A.K.A. | Olvi L. Mangasarian | ||||
| A.K.A. | Olvi L. Mangasarian | ||||
| Places | United States of America | ||||
| was | Mathematician Computer scientist | ||||
| Work field | Mathematics Science Technology | ||||
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| Birth | 12 January 1934, Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq | ||||
| Death | 15 March 2020Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA (aged 86 years) | ||||
| Star sign | Capricorn | ||||
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Biography
Olvi Leon Mangasarian (born 12 January 1934 - 15 March 2020) was the John von Neumann Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Sciences in Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego and Professor Emeritus of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a recognised expert on optimization, data mining, and classification. In 2000, while professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he was awarded the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for pioneering work in introducing the use of Operations Research techniques to the field of data mining with a particularly notable application being to breast cancer diagnosis.
Selected publications
- Mangasarian, O. L. (1993). Nonlinear programming (Vol. 10). SIAM.
Festschrift
- Pang, J. S. (1999). Computational Optimization: A Tribute to Olvi Mangasarian, Volumes I and II. Kluwer Acad. Publ.