"New Mathematical Methods in Operations Research" in Journal of Operations Research Society of America

KOOPMAN, Bernard.

Published by Operations Research Society of America, Baltimore., 1953

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KOOPMAN, Bernard. "New Mathematical Methods in Operations Research" in Journal of Operations Research Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland, volume 1, 1952-1953. The full volume offered, including contributions by Philip Morse, "The Operations Research Society of America", pp 1-3. The Koopman paper appears on pp 3-10 in the volume of 325+16pp. Newly rebound in calf-backed decorated paper boards. Basically in as-new condition. [++] "Bernard Osgood Koopman (January 19, 1900  August 18, 1981) was a French-born American mathematician, known for his work in ergodic theory, the foundations of probability, statistical theory and operations research. In 1931/1932, Koopman and John von Neumann proposed a Hilbert space formulation of classical mechanics, known as the Koopman von Neumann classical mechanics. During World War II, he joined the Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Research Group (ASWORG, later ORG) in Washington, D.C., directed by Philip M. Morse, to work for the U.S. Navy. The work of Koopman and his colleagues at ASWORG concerned the development of techniques for the US Navy to hunt U-boats. The theoretical work laid the foundations for search theory which subsequently became a field of its own within operations research."--Wikipedia.  [++] From the AIP Interview with David Katcher, who worked with the ORA folks and who was founding editor of "Physics Today" and much else: "The ORSA and ORO were entirely different and independent. ORO is the Operations Research Office. That was Johns Hopkins. It worked for the Army on Army problems. ORSA was a professional association called the Operations Research Society of America, which consisted of professionals in the field. It included and was really started by people who started in military OR in World War II but spread into civilian fields. Its members came from professionals with the Navy, the Air Force, and increasingly, of course, from academic and industrial work as well as from the Army. " [++] Also bound with: Koopman, "The Optimum Distribution of Effort" pp 52-63 and much else in this the inaugural volume of the journal.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: "New Mathematical Methods in Operations Research" in Journal of Operations Research Society of America
• Publisher: Operations Research Society of America, Baltimore.
• Publication Date: 1953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
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