Talk:Leonid Khachiyan

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It appears the link to balancing is incorrect. Based on the context of the sentence with respect to balancing, I would assume Khachiyan's work was related to matrix balancing, not networking balancing. However, Khachiyan's work on linear programming would have application to network balancing (I think). In short, I find the article ambiguous on what his contribution was with respect to balancing.

--Ajkalb (talk) 21:40, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Khachiyan wrote on matrix balancing, which is useful in matrix iterative analysis (DAD theorems) and statistics (RAS algorithm, sic., for log-linear models): See Bapat and Rhagavan's Nonnegative Matrices for background and for research see Khachiyan's papers with Kalantari, etc.

You are correct that his work has (theoretical) applications in communication-network balancing. Thanks, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 15:42, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]