William W. Cooper

Thinkers1914 to 2012Operations researcher

Works

  • Management Models and Industrial Applications of Linear Programming, 1961

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Known for

A pioneer of management science, known as "Mr. Linear Programming," who taught at Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, and the University of Texas at Austin. With Abraham Charnes he wrote the two-volume work that carried linear programming into industry, and the two later developed chance-constrained programming and, with Edwardo Rhodes, data envelopment analysis.

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