Marguerite Straus Frank (September 8, 1927 – December 11, 2024) was a French-American mathematician who was a pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming.
Marguerite Straus Frank | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 8, 1927 |
| Died | December 11, 2024 (aged 97) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | Lie algebra Mathematical programming |
| Spouse | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Thesis | New Simple Lie Algebras (1956) |
| Abraham Adrian Albert | |
Education
editAfter attending secondary schooling in Paris and Toronto,[1] Frank contributed largely to the fields of transportation theory and Lie algebras, which later became the topic of her PhD thesis, New Simple Lie Algebras.[2] She was one of the first female PhD students in mathematics at Harvard University,[3] completing her dissertation in 1956, with Abraham Adrian Albert as her advisor.[2]
Contributions
editTogether with Philip Wolfe in 1956 at Princeton, she invented the Frank–Wolfe algorithm,[4] an iterative optimization method for general constrained non-linear problems.
Personal life
editMarguerite Frank was born in France and migrated to U.S. during the war in 1939.[1] She was married to Joseph Frank from 1953 until his death in 2013. He was a professor of literature at Stanford and an author of widely acclaimed critical biography of Dostoevsky.[5] Frank died on December 11, 2024, at the age of 97.[6]
Selected publications
edit- Frank, M (1954). "A New Class of Simple Lie Algebras". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 40 (8): 713–719. Bibcode:1954PNAS...40..713S. doi:10.1073/pnas.40.8.713. PMC 534147. PMID 16589544.
- Frank, M.; Wolfe, P. (1956). "An algorithm for quadratic programming". Naval Research Logistics Quarterly. 3 (1–2): 95–110. doi:10.1002/nav.3800030109.
- Frank, M. (1964). "Two New Classes of Simple Lie Algebras". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 112 (3): 456–482. doi:10.2307/1994156. JSTOR 1994156.
- Frank, M. (1973). "A New Simple Lie Algebra of Characteristic Three". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 38 (1): 43–46. doi:10.2307/2038767. JSTOR 2038767.
- Frank, M. (1981). "The Braess paradox". Mathematical Programming. 20: 283–302. doi:10.1007/BF01589354. S2CID 206800589.
- Frank, M.; Mladineo, R. H. (1993). "Computer generation of network cost from one link's equilibrium data". Annals of Operations Research. 44 (3): 261. doi:10.1007/BF02072642. S2CID 33907141.
References
edit- 1 2 Albert-Goldberg, Nancy (2005). A3 & His Algebra: How a Boy from Chicago's West Side Became a Force in American Mathematics. iUniverse. p. 348. ISBN 9781469726397.
- 1 2 "Marguerite Josephine Straus Frank". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
- ↑ Assad, Arjang A; Gass, Saul I (2011). Profiles in operations research: pioneers and innovators. Boston, MA: Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 9781441962812.
- ↑ Frank, M.; Wolfe, P. (1956). "An algorithm for quadratic programming". Naval Research Logistics Quarterly. 3 (1–2): 95–110. doi:10.1002/nav.3800030109.
- ↑ "Joseph Frank, Biographer of Dostoevsky, Dies at 94". New York Times. 4 March 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
- ↑ "Sad News - The Passing of Dr. Marguerite Frank | INFORMS Open Forum". connect.informs.org. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
External links
edit- "Marguerite Frank - Inventor of the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm - Honorary Discussion Panel". Frank-Wolfe and Greedy Algorithms (NIPS 2013 Workshop). YouTube. Retrieved 2017-03-06.