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Like many other research subjects in mathematics, the field of optimal transport was born several times. The first of these births occurred at the end of the eighteenth century, by way of the French geometer Gaspard Monge.
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Villani, C. (2009). The founding fathers of optimal transport. In: Optimal Transport. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71050-9_3
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