L. R. Ford Jr.
Lester Randolph Ford, Jr. (born September 23, 1927, Houston) is an American mathematician specializing in network flow problems. He is the son of mathematician Lester R. Ford, Sr..[1]
Ford's paper with D. R. Fulkerson on the maximum flow problem and the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm for solving it, published as a technical report in 1954 and in a journal in 1956, established the max-flow min-cut theorem.[2][3] Ford also developed the Bellman–Ford algorithm for finding shortest paths in graphs that have negatively weighted edges before Bellman.
References
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Lester Randolph Ford", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ Ford, L. R., Jr.; Fulkerson, D. R. (1956), "Maximal flow through a network" (PDF), Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 8: 399–404, doi:10.4153/cjm-1956-045-5, MR 0079251
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link). - ^ Gass, Saul I.; Assad, Arjang (2005), "1954 Max-flow min-cut theorem", An annotated timeline of operations research: an informal history, International series in operations research & management science, vol. 75, Springer-Verlag, p. 96, ISBN 978-1-4020-8112-5.
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