Michel Balinski
| Michel Louis Balinski | |
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From left: Michel Balinski, Friedrich Pukelsheim, Steven Brams, Oberwolfach 2004
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| Born |
October 6, 1933 Geneva, Switzerland |
| Residence | France |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics, Economics, Operations Research, Political Science |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Albert W. Tucker |
| Doctoral students | Louis Billera |
| Notable awards | John von Neumann Theory Prize, Lanchester Prize |
Michel Louis Balinski (born October 6, 1933) is an applied mathematician, economist, operations research analyst and political scientist. American, educated in the United States, he has lived and worked primarily in the United States and France. He is known for his work in optimization (combinatorial, linear, nonlinear), convex polyhedra, stable matching, and the theory and practice of electoral systems, jury decision, and social choice. He is Directeur de Recherche de classe exceptionnelle (emeritus) of the C.N.R.S. at the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris). He was awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize by INFORMS in 2013.
Michel Balinski was born in Geneva, Switzerland, the son of a Polish diplomat at the League of Nations and the grandson of the Polish bacteriologist and UNICEF founder Ludwik Rajchman. He was living with his grandparents in France when in 1940 the family fled the Nazis via Spain and Portugal to the United States. He graduated from the Edgewood School in Greenwich CT in 1950, earned a B.A. degree cum laude in mathematics at Williams College in 1954 and a M.Sc. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956. He completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton University in 1959 under the supervision of Albert W. Tucker.
After completing his Ph.D. Balinski remained at Princeton University as a Research Associate then Lecturer in mathematics. From 1963 to 1965 he was Associate Professor of Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was then appointed to the Graduate School of the City University of New York, first as Associate Professor then (as of 1969) Professor of Mathematics. One of his doctoral students at the City University was another noted mathematician, Louis Billera, through whom he has many academic descendants. In 1978 he was appointed Professor of Organization and Management and of Administrative Sciences at Yale.
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