OR Forum—The Beginnings of Operations Research: 1934–1941

Operations Research · 1987 · Volume 35 · Issue 1

Abstract

This paper, the first in a series on the history of operations research and management science, traces the scattered beginnings of operations research from World War I up to the activities in Britain before and during the early months of World War II.

Keywords

601 OR/MS history

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