Martin J. Beckmann
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[]
- ^ TUM Mitteilungen 3- 2004 (in German)
- ^ Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften | Ehrendoktoren Archived 2017-11-09 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- ^ Papers in Regional Science, Volume 57, Number 1, 1-2, doi:10.1007/BF01935275
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- 1924 births
- 2017 deaths
- German economists
- Brown University faculty
- Regional economists
- Fellows of the Econometric Society
- Helmut Schmidt University alumni
- German expatriates in the United States
- Yale University faculty
- University of Chicago faculty