Long history of the Monge-Kantorovich transportation problem

DOI10.1007/s00283-013-9380-xzbMath1284.01041MaRDI QIDQ393476

Publication date: 23 January 2014

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9380-x

zbMATH Keywords

Wasserstein metric; transportation problem; Gaspard Monge; Kantorovich metric; Leonid Kantorovich; Vasershtein metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B06: Transportation, logistics and supply chain management

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

01A70: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

49Q20: Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting

49-03: History of calculus of variations and optimal control

90-03: History of operations research and mathematical programming

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