Background
El-Hodiri, Mohamed A. was born on April 13, 1937 in Munsa, Ashmoon, Egypt. Son of Ali A. and Dawlat (El-Taher) El-Hodiri. came to the United States, 1959.
(It is not an exaggeration to state that most problems dea...)
It is not an exaggeration to state that most problems dealt with in economic theory can be formulated as problems in optimization theory. This holds true for the paradigm of "behavioral" optimization in the pursuit of individual self interests and societally efficient resource allocation, as well as for equilibrium paradigms where existence and stability problems in dynamics can often be stated as "potential" problems in optimization. For this reason, books in mathematical economics and in mathematics for economists devote considerable attention to optimization theory. However, with very few exceptions, the reader who is interested in further study is left with the impression that there is no further place to go to and that what is in these second hand sources is all these is available as far as the subject of optimization theory is concerned. On the other hand the main results from mathematics are often carelessly stated or, more often than not, they do not get to be formally stated at all. Furthermore, it should be well understood that economic theory in general and, mathematical economics in particular, must be classified as special types of applied mathematics or, more precisely, of motivated mathematics since tools of mathematical analysis are used to prove theorems in an economics context in the manner in which probability theory may be classified. Hence, rigor and correct scholarship are of utmost importance and can not be subject to compromise.
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El-Hodiri, Mohamed A. was born on April 13, 1937 in Munsa, Ashmoon, Egypt. Son of Ali A. and Dawlat (El-Taher) El-Hodiri. came to the United States, 1959.
Bachelor of Science in Economics, Cairo University, 1958. Master of Arts in Economic, Master of Arts in Mathematics & Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1966.
Economist, Min. of Treasury of Office of Min., Cairo, 1966-1967; head economics models, Institute National Planning, Cairo, 1967-1968; associate professor economics, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1968-1973; professor economics, U. Kansas, Lawrence, since 1973; professor Russian and Eastern European studies, U. Kansas, Lawrence, since 1992; director economics research Policy and Business Research, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1986-1993; co-director Institute Public Policy and Business Research, Institute Public Policy and Business Research U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1993-1994; director Applied Social Science Research Center, Institute Public Policy and Business Research U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1993-1994; associate director, Institute Public Policy and Business Research U. Kansas, Lawrence, since 1994.
(It is not an exaggeration to state that most problems dea...)
(It is not an exaggeration to state that most problems dea...)
Member American Economics Association, American Mathematics Society, Arab Society Economics Research, Econometric Society, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Married Soad Hanem Abdel-Gallil, October 15, 1960. Children: Heithem, Sahar, Nagala'a.