Marguerite Frank

Marguerite Josephine Straus Frank was a French-American mathematician, born in 1927 and died in 2024, who was a pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming. Together with Philip Wolfe she proposed in 1956 the algorithm that bears both their names, the Frank-Wolfe algorithm, which is also known as the conditional gradient method, the reduced gradient algorithm and the convex combination algorithm.