“It is difficult to distinguish another scholar in the history of the twentieth century who contributed as much as him to the fusion of mathematics and economics, the sciences with the antipodal standards of scientific thought. {{w|Israel Gelfand}} pointed out that he can list only John von Neumann and {{w|Andrei Kolmogorov}} alongside Leonid Kantorovich among those few of his contemporaries who synthesized the mathematical and humanitarian cultures.”