Martin J. Beckmann

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Martin Joseph Beckmann (5 July 1924, Ratingen, Germany – 11 April 2017) was a professor for Economics and Applied Mathematics. He was professor at the University of Chicago, Yale University and Brown University, as well as the University of Bonn and Technische Universität München.[1] He received honorary degrees from the University of Karlsruhe, the Umeå University and the University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg.[2] He was president of the European Regional Science Association and received the Regional Science Founders Medal in 1983. His research spans a wide field in spatial analysis and regional economics, with a special focus on transport economics.[3]

Martin Beckmann established basic principles for user behavior on , as well as for optimal network vehicle flows, when user choices are respectively uncoordinated or coordinated. Beckmann’s contribution launched the new subfield of .

Further reading[]

  • Hauptmann, H.; Krelle, W.; Mosler, K.C., eds. (1984). Operations Research and Economic Theory: Essays in Honor of Martin J. Beckmann. Berlin , Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-13652-1.

References[]

  1. ^ TUM Mitteilungen 3- 2004 (in German)
  2. ^ Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften | Ehrendoktoren Archived 2017-11-09 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
  3. ^ Papers in Regional Science, Volume 57, Number 1, 1-2, doi:10.1007/BF01935275

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