Oral history interview with Harry M. Markowitz, 2002 Mar. 18.

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Oral history interview with Harry M. Markowitz, 2002 Mar. 18.

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Harry M. Markowitz discusses his development of portfolio theory, (for which he received a Nobel Prize in Economics), "Sparse Matrices," and his work at the RAND Coporation, GE, CACI, and IBM on simulation software development, modeling, and operations research.

Sound cassettes : 2 (60 min. each) : analog, mono.Transcript : 35 leaves.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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