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For a complete listing of Prékopa’s publications see http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/Prekopa/.
The inequality that expresses the result in the first theorem is sometimes misquoted as the Prékopa-Leindler inequality. After Prékopa published his theorem, László Leindler became interested in one of his auxiliary theorems and gave various generalizations to it but not to the theorem itself.
Prékopa’s results very much impressed Charnes, secretary of foreign affairs of the National Academy of Engineering of Mexico in the 1970s, and in 1977 he proposed Prékopa to be a foreign corresponding member of that Academy. In his letter to Prékopa, he wrote, “To set the honor in perspective, I am also nominating Professor Leonid Kantorovich, the Nobel Prize winner, as a member.”
This was even used in the early 1970s by an Oxford professor for his courses, with the aid of a Hungarian-English dictionary.
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Summary of András Prékopa’s scientific contributions. Ann Oper Res 200, 3–7 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-012-1210-6
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