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Profiles in Operations Research Pioneers and Innovators

Their work resulted in great improvements—OR helped the Allies win the war. The scientific field that emerged from these studies was called operational research in the U.K. and operations research in the U.S. Today, OR provides a broad and powerful science to aid decision making. Profiles describes...

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Other Authors: Assad, Arjang A. (Editor), Gass, Saul I. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2011, 2011
Edition:1st ed. 2011
Series:International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
Subjects:
Operations Research
Operations Research And Decision Theory
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Patrick Blackett (1897)
  • Chapter 2. Steven Vajda (1901)
  • Chapter 3. Philip McCord Morse (1903)
  • Chapter 4. John von Neumann (1903)
  • Chapter 5. Charles Frederick Goodeve (1904)
  • Chapter 6. Albert W. Tucker (1905)
  • Chapter 7. Jacinto Steinhardt (1906)
  • Chapter 8. George E. Kimball (1906)
  • Chapter 9. Ellis A. Johnson (1906)
  • Chapter 10. Leonid Vital'evich Kantorovich (1912)
  • Chapter 11. C. West Churchman (1913)
  • Chapter 12. William W. Cooper (1914)
  • Chapter 13. George B. Dantzig (1914)
  • Chapter 14. Herbert A. Simon (1916)
  • Chapter 15. Andrew Vazsonyi (1916)
  • Chapter 16. Murray Aaron Geisler (1917)
  • Chapter 17. Hugh Jordan Miser (1917)
  • Chapter 18. Abraham Charnes (1917)
  • Chapter 19. George Kozmetsky (1917). Chapter 20. Jay Wright Forrester (1918)
  • Chapter 21. Russell Lincoln Ackoff (1919)
  • Chapter 22. David Bendel Hertz (1919)
  • Chapter 23. Richard E. Bellman (1920)
  • Chapter 24. Egon Balas (1922)
  • Chapter 25. E. Leonard Arnoff (1922)
  • Chapter 26. Berwyn Hugh Patrick Rivett (1923)
  • Chapter 27. Howard Raiffa (1924)
  • Chapter 28. D. Ray Fulkerson (1924)
  • Chapter 29. Harold W. Kuhn (1925)
  • Chapter 30. Saul I. Gass (1926)
  • Chapter 31. Thomas L. Saaty (1926)
  • Chapter 32. Anthony Stafford Beer (1926)
  • Chapter 33. John F. Magee (1926)
  • Chapter 34. Philip Starr Wolfe (1927)
  • Chapter 35. Harry Markowitz (1927)
  • Chapter 36. John D. C. Little (1928)
  • Chapter 37. Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale (1928)
  • Chapter 38. Ralph E. Gomory (1929)
  • Chapter 39. Alfred Blumstein (1930)
  • Chapter 40. Harvey M. Wagner (1931)
  • Chapter 41. Seth Bonder (1932)
  • Chapter 42. Bernard Roy (1934)
  • Chapter 43. Ronald A. Howard (1934)

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