Charalambos Dionisios Aliprantis (Greek: Χαράλαμπος Διονύσιος Αλιπράντης; May 12, 1946 – February 27, 2009) was a Greek-American economist and mathematician who introduced Banach space and Riesz space methods in economic theory. He was born in Cefalonia, Greece in 1946 and immigrated to the US in 1969, where he obtained his PhD in Mathematics from Caltech in June 1973.
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Aliprantis, Charalambos D.; Brown, Donald J.; Burkinshaw, Owen (1990). Existence and optimality of competitive equilibria. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. pp. xii+284. ISBN978-3-540-52866-1. MR1075992.
Aliprantis, Charalambos D.; Burkinshaw, Owen (2003). Locally solid Riesz spaces with applications to economics (second ed.). Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. ISBN978-0-8218-3408-4. MR2011364.
Aliprantis, Charalambos D.; Burkinshaw, Owen (2006). Positive operators (Reprint of the 1985 Academic Press original ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. pp. xx+376 pp. ISBN978-1-4020-5007-7. MR2262133.