Theodore Motzkin

Theodore Motzkin
תיאודור מוצקין
Born(1908-03-26)March 26, 1908
DiedOctober 15, 1970(1970-10-15) (aged 62)
Alma materUniversity of Basel
Known forMotzkin transposition theorem
Motzkin number
PIDs that are not EDs
Linear programming
Fourier–Motzkin elimination
Weak component
Motzkin polynomial
Scientific career
InstitutionsUCLA
ThesisBeiträge zur Theorie der linearen Ungleichungen (1936)
Doctoral advisorAlexander Ostrowski
Doctoral studentsJohn Selfridge
Rafael Artzy

Theodore Samuel Motzkin (Hebrew: תיאודור מוצקין; 26 March 1908 – 15 December 1970) was an Israeli-American mathematician.