Claude Lemaréchal

Claude Lemaréchal
Claude Lemaréchal in 2005
NationalityFrench
Known forBundle methods of descent for convex minimization and nonsmooth optimization
AwardsDantzig Prize of SIAM and MPS 1994
Scientific career
FieldsMathematical optimization
Operations research
Scientific computing
InstitutionsINRIA

Claude Lemaréchal is a French applied mathematician, and former senior researcher (directeur de recherche) at INRIA near Grenoble, France.

In mathematical optimization, Claude Lemaréchal is known for his work in numerical methods for nonlinear optimization, especially for problems with nondifferentiable kinks. Lemaréchal and Philip Wolfe pioneered bundle methods of descent for convex minimization.

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