  I want to write about what I know and remember about the activities of Leonid
Vital'evich Kantorovich, an outstanding scientist of the 20th century; about
his dramatic struggle for recognition of his mathematical economic theories;
about the initial stage of the history of linear programming; about beautuful
Kantorovich metric, about the creation of a new area of mathematical activity
related to economic applications, which is called sometimes operation research,
sometimes mathematical economics, sometimes linear and convex programming, or
economic cybernetics, etc.; about its place in the modern mathematical
landscape; and, finally, about several personal impressions of this
distinguished scientist. The notes in no way pretend to exhaust these topics.
