Nicos Christofides, born in Cyprus in 1942 and died in 2019, was a Cypriot mathematician and professor of financial mathematics at Imperial College London. He studied electrical engineering at Imperial College and received his doctorate there in 1966. In 1976 he devised the Christofides algorithm, an algorithm for finding approximate solutions to the travelling salesman problem that is considered groundbreaking. In 1982 he rejoined Imperial College as a professor of operations research.
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