L. R. Ford
Lester Randolph Ford, Sr. (
October 29,
1886 ? -
March 7 1975 ?) was an
American mathematician, editor of the
American Mathematical Monthly from
1942 to
1946, and President of the
Mathematical Association of America from
1947 to
1948. In 1964 the MAA recognised his contribution to mathematics by establishing the Lester R. Ford Awards for authors of articles of expository excellence published in
The American Mathematical Monthly or
Mathematics Magazine.
Lester Randolph Ford, Jr. (born September 23, 1927), son of Lester R. Ford, Sr., is an American mathematician specializing in network flow programming. His 1956 paper with D. R. Fulkerson on the maximum flow problem established the maxflow-mincut theorem.
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