Narendra Krishna Karmarkar | |
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Born | 1956 (age 68–69) Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India |
Alma mater | IIT Bombay (BTech) California Institute of Technology (MS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Known for | Karmarkar's algorithm |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics, computing science |
Institutions | Bell Labs |
Thesis | Coping with NP-Hard Problems (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard M. Karp[1] |
Narendra Krishna Karmarkar (born circa 1956) is an Indian mathematician. Karmarkar developed Karmarkar's algorithm. He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.[2]
He invented one of the first provably polynomial time algorithms for linear programming, which is generally referred to as an interior point method. The algorithm is a cornerstone in the field of linear programming. He published his famous result in 1984 while he was working for Bell Laboratories in New Jersey.