Frank Lauren Hitchcock ( – ) foi um matemático e físico estadunidense, conhecido por sua formulação do problema de transporte.
Formação e carreira Frank entrou na Universidade Harvard, onde obteve o bacharelado em 1896. Começou então a lecionar, inicialmente em Paris e no Kenyon College em Gambier (Ohio). De 1904 a 1906 lecionou química na Universidade Estatal de Dakota do Norte em Fargo (Dakota do Norte).
Hitchcock retornou a Massachusetts e começou a lecionar no Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts com estudos de pós-graduação em Harvard. Em 1910 obteve um Ph.D. com a tese Vector Functions of a Point.
Obras 1910: Vector Functions of a Point. 1915: A Classification of Quadratic Vectors Functions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1(3):177 to 183. 1917: On the simultaneous formulation of two linear vector functions, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section A 34: 1 to 10. 1920: A study of the vector product Vφαθβ, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section A 35: 30 to 7. 1920: A Thermodynamic Study of Electrolytic Solutions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 6(4):186 to 197. 1920: An Identical Relation Connecting Seven Vectors. 1921: The Axes of a Quadratic Vector, Proceedings AAAS 56(9):331 to 351. 1921: with Norbert Wiener, A New Vector Method in Integral Equations, MIT Journal of Mathematics and Physics volume 1. 1923: On Double Polyadics, with Application to the Linear Matrix Equation, Proceedings AAAS 58(10): 355 to 395. 1923: Identities Satisfied by Algebraic Point Functions in N-space, Proceedings AAAS 58(11): 399 to 421. 1923: with Clark S. Robinson, Differential Equations in Applied Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, now from Archive.org. 1923: A Method for the Numerical Solution of Integral Equations. 1924: The Coincident Points of Two Algebraic Transformations. 1922: A Solution of the Linear Matrix Equation by Double Multiplication.
Dr. Frank L. Hitchcock, Mathematician, Professor Emeritus at M.I.T., Dies at 82, The New York Times, June 1, 1957, p. 17. Frank L. Hitchcock (1941) "The distribution of a product from several sources to numerous localities", MIT Journal of Mathematics and Physics 20:224–230 .
Ligações externas D. R. Fulkerson (1956) Hitchcock Transportation Problem, RAND corporation. Hitchcock's family tree Obituary
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