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Egon Balas
Egon Balas has been a leading researcher in discrete optimization and operations research for more than forty years. His most important contributions have been to integer programming.
Life
A native of Romania, he was imprisoned under a Fascist regime during World War II and then under a Stalinist one during the 1950's. Throughout all these experiences one thing nobody could stop him from doing was creative thinking! Therefore, Balas turned his attention completely to mathematics. The fascinating story of this early part of his life is told in his 1999 book, Will to Freedom.