On Some Works of Kantorovich, Koopmans and Others

摘要: The July, I960, issue of Management Science contains an English translation important original article by L. V. Kantorovich [Kantorovich, Mathematical Methods Organizing and Planning Production. Leningrad University, 1939, with a Foreword A. R. Marchenko (Russian). An translation, prepared W. Campbell H. Marlow, appears under this same title in Vol. 6, No. 4, (July, 1960), pp. 366–422.] introductory note T. C. Koopmans [Koopmans, 1960. A about Kantorovich's paper, ‘Mathematical Production'. Sci. 6 (4, July) 363–365.] which is both evaluative explanatory. In his penultimate paragraph, Professor accords tribute to writing at least partly deserved, although it also paid for, we think, too high price modesty for Koopman's own work as well the others. There certain lack precision critical points the...