Profiles in operations research : pioneers and innovators / written, compiled, and edited by Arjang A. Assad, Saul I. Gass

Published:: New York : Springer, [date of publication not identified][2011]
Copyright Date:: ©2011
Physical Description:: xxiii, 867 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Assad, A. (Arjang) and Gass, Saul I.

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International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, v. 147

Contents:

Ch. 1. Patrick Blackett / by Maurice W. Kirby, Jonathan Rosenhead -- Ch. 2. Steven Vajda / by Jakob Krarup -- Ch. 3. Philip McCord Morse / by Robert M. Oliver -- Ch. 4. John von Neumann / by Saul I. Gass -- Ch. 5. Charles Frederick Goodeve / by Maurice W. Kirby -- Ch. 6. Albert W. Tucker / by Saul I. Gass -- Ch. 7. Jacinto Steinhardt / by Saul I. Gass -- Ch. 8. George E. Kimball / by John F. Magee -- Ch. 9. Ellis A. Johnson / by Saul I. Gass -- Ch. 10. Leonid Vital'evich Kantorovich / by Saul I. Gass -- Ch. 11. C. West Churchman / by Arjang A. Assad -- Ch. 12. William W. Cooper / by Timothy W. Ruefli, Robert R. Wiggins -- Ch. 13. George B. Dantzig / by Saul I. Gass -- Ch. 14. Herbert A. Simon / by Arjang A. Assad -- Ch. 15. Andrew Vazsonyi / by Nancy C. Weida --, Ch. 16. Murray Aaron Geisler / by Perkins C. Pedrick -- Ch. 17. Hugh Jordan Miser / by Michael H. Rothkopf -- Ch. 18. Abraham Charnes / by Fred Y. Phillips, Lawrence M. Seiford -- Ch. 19. George Kozmetsky / by Lawrence Secrest, David V. Gibson, John Sibley Butler -- Ch. 20. Jay Wright Forrester / by David C. Lane, John D. Sterman -- Ch. 21. Russell Lincoln Ackoff / by Maurice W. Kirby, Jonathan Rosenhead -- Ch. 22. David Bendel Hertz / by Edward K. Baker, Robert T. Plant -- Ch. 23. Richard E. Bellman / by Arjang A. Assad -- Ch. 24. Egon Balas / by Graham K. Rand -- Ch. 25. E. Leonard Arnoff / by David F. Rogers -- Ch. 26. Berwyn Hugh Patrick Rivett / by Graham K. Rand -- Ch. 27. Howard Raiffa / by Ralph L. Keeney -- Ch. 28. D. Ray Fulkerson / by Robert G. Bland, James B. Orlin -- Ch. 29. Harold W. Kuhn / by Saul I. Gass, Guilermo Owen -- Ch. 30. Saul I. Gass / by Arjang A. Assad --, and Ch. 31. Thomas L. Saaty / by Luis G. Vargas -- Ch. 32. Anthony Stafford Beer / by Jonathan Rosenhead -- Ch. 33. John F. Magee / by Saul I. Gass -- Ch. 34. Philip Starr Wolfe / by Alan J. Hoffman -- Ch. 35. Harry Markowitz / by John B. Guerard Jr. -- Ch. 36. John D.C. Little / by John R. Hauser, Glen L. Urban -- Ch. 37. Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale / by John A. Tomlin -- Ch. 38. Ralphe E. Gomory / by Ellis L. Johnson -- Ch. 39. Alfred Blumstein / by Daniel S. Nagin -- Ch. 40. Harvey M. Wagner / by Shaler Stidham Jr. -- Ch. 41. Seth Bonder / by W. Peter Cherry -- Ch. 42. Bernard Roy / by Denis Bouyssou, Daneil Vanderpooten -- Ch. 43. Ronald A. Howard / by James E. Matheson.

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ISBN:

9781441962805
1441962808

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Source of Acquisition:

Gift of the family of Michael H. Rothkopf, PhD, 2014

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