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Harold William Kuhn (July 29, 1925 – July 2, 2014) was an American mathematician who studied game theory. He won the 1980 John von Neumann Theory Prize along with David Gale and Albert W. Tucker. A former Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University, he is known for the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, for Kuhn's theorem, for developing Kuhn poker as well as the description of the Hungarian method for the assignment problem. Recently, though, a paper by Carl Gustav Jacobi, published posthumously in 1890 in Latin, has been discovered that anticipates by many decades the Hungarian algorithm.〔Harold W. Kuhn, The Hungarian Method for the Assignment Problem and how Jacobi beat me by 100 Years, Seminar, Concordia University, September 12, 2006〕 == Life == Kuhn was born in Santa Monica in 1925.〔Siegfried Gottwald, Hans J. Ilgauds, Karl H. Schlote (Hrsg.): ''Lexikon bedeutender Mathematiker''. Verlag Harri Thun, Frankfurt a. M. 1990 ISBN 3-8171-1164-9〕 He is known for his association with John Forbes Nash, as a fellow graduate student, a lifelong friend and colleague, and a key figure in getting Nash the attention of the Nobel Prize committee that led to Nash's 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics.〔(The Times Higher Education Supplement: The autumnal sadness of the Princeton ghost )〕 Kuhn and Nash both had long associations and collaborations with Albert W. Tucker, who was Nash's dissertation advisor. Kuhn co-edited ''The Essential John Nash'',〔(The Essential John Nash, edited by Harold W. Kuhn & Sylvia Nasar, Princeton University Press )〕 and is credited as the mathematics consultant in the 2001 movie adaptation of Nash's life, ''A Beautiful Mind''.〔(Harold Kuhn, consultant: Princeton )〕 Harold Kuhn served as the third president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). His oldest son was historian Clifford Kuhn (1952-2015), noted for his scholarship on the American South and for collecting oral history. Another son, Nick Kuhn, is a professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia.〔(Nick Kuhn, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia )〕 His youngest son, Jonathan Kuhn, is Director of Art and Antiquities for the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Kuhn died on July 2, 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Professor Emeritus Harold W. Kuhn died on July 2, 2014 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harold W. Kuhn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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