Ed,
The news about Scarf's passing is so sad! Coincidentally, on Tuesday I was telling my students about him in my undergraduate class. After I returned I heard the news so I was inspired today to write a reflection about him in a blogpost:
RENeW: Remembering Herbert E. Scarf of Yale, Great Economist and Operations Researcher - Rest in Peace
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| RENeW: Remembering Herbert E. Scarf of Yale, Great Economist and Operations Researcher - Rest in Peace |
| This past Tuesday, while teaching my Transportation and Logistics class at the Isenberg School of Management, a class that I love to teach, we were discussing the importance of identifying conditions that guarantee uniqueness of equilibria. I had presented an extended model of transportation network equilibria and we were analyzing it qualitatively. |
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I so much appreciated that he, like Dantzig, Eaves, Manne, Roth, and quite a few others contributed so much to both to both operations research and economics.
Sincerely,
Anna
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Anna Nagurney
John F. Smith Memorial Professor
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Amherst MA
Original Message:
Sent: 11-18-2015 14:15
From: Edward Kaplan
Subject: Herbert Scarf, 1930-2015
I bring the sad news that Herb Scarf, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale, passed away this past Sunday. Herb was a towering figure among a certain generation of operations researchers. He won both the Lanchester Prize (1973, https://www.informs.org/Recognize-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes-Awards/Frederick-W.-Lanchester-Prize/1973-Winner) and the John von Neumann Medal (1983, https://www.informs.org/Recognize-Excellence/INFORMS-Prizes-Awards/John-von-Neumann-Theory-Prize/1983-Winner) from ORSA. He was responsible for establishing the optimality of (S, s) inventory policies for many problems, other work in inventory theory, and seminal work in game theory, among other contributions. You can read more about him online at http://cowles.yale.edu/news/memory-herbert-e-scarf-july-25-1930-november-15-2015 and in the INFORMS History and Traditions site and see his faculty page at http://dido.econ.yale.edu/~hes/. What are your memories of Herb? INFORMS would love to hear your stories.
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Edward Kaplan
Beach Professor Operations Research, Pub Health, Engineering
Yale University
New Haven CT
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