Profiles in operations research. Pioneers and innovators

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Publication date 10 September 2010

Published in International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6281-2

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest (00B15) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming (90-06) Schools of mathematics (01A72) History of operations research and mathematical programming (90-03)

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