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L. R. Ford Jr.

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American mathematician

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L. R. Ford Jr.
Mathematics
#2615
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#4006
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#1022
USA Rank
Measure Theory
#1971
World Rank
#2396
Historical Rank
#589
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Lester Randolph Ford Jr. was an American mathematician specializing in network flow problems. He was the son of mathematician Lester R. Ford Sr. 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. In 1962 they published Flows in Networks with Princeton University Press. According to the preface, it "included topics that were purely mathematically motivated, together with those that are strictly utilitarian in concept." In his review, S.W. Golomb wrote, "This book is an attractive, well-written account of a fairly new topic in pure and applied combinatorial analysis." As a topic of continued interest, a new edition was published in 2010 with a new foreword by Robert G. Bland and James B. Orlin.

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