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ALAN J. GOLDMAN
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From page 123... ... Alan grew up in Brooklyn, New York, a short walk from Coney Island, as the only child of Leonard and Sylvia Goldman, both of whom worked for the New York City Public Schools. As a student at the local Abraham Lincoln High School he showed an interest in a wide variety of activities, including competing for the school's Chess Club and Math Team and playing basketball and handball. Read the entire page →
From page 124... ... While writing his PhD thesis on a subject in algebraic topology under the direction of Ralph Fox, Goldman contributed three seminal papers to Annals of Mathematics Study 38, which was edited by Harold Kuhn and Albert Tucker. Goldman's appreciation of the contributions of the Princeton group to the areas of game theory, mathematical programming, and combinatorial optimization is eloquently expressed in a citation he authored for the award of the von Neumann Theory Prize to David Gale, Harold Kuhn, and Albert Tucker in 1980. Read the entire page →
From page 125... ... He played a key role in planning and demand-forecasting for intercity and urban transportation systems. The list of applications Alan and his NBS team investigated and wrote about is vast and includes antimissile defense, mail sorting and distribution systems, runway capacity, impact and viability of new aircraft, network viability, lead paint poisoning, pesticide propagation, arms control modeling, and fire department operations. Read the entire page →
From page 126... ... As an emeritus professor he continued to supervise the research projects of graduate students and to develop and teach new courses in operations research, such as "Math in Sports" and "Supply Chain Management." Students with serious academic aspirations benefited enormously from the unfailing care he put into his efforts as teacher and mentor. Alan's death resulted in a huge outpouring of comments from the many colleagues and students whose lives had been deeply touched by him, and from these comments familiar themes emerge. Read the entire page →

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... Alan grew up in Brooklyn, New York, a short walk from Coney Island, as the only child of Leonard and Sylvia Goldman, both of whom worked for the New York City Public Schools. As a student at the local Abraham Lincoln High School he showed an interest in a wide variety of activities, including competing for the school's Chess Club and Math Team and playing basketball and handball.

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From page 124...

... While writing his PhD thesis on a subject in algebraic topology under the direction of Ralph Fox, Goldman contributed three seminal papers to Annals of Mathematics Study 38, which was edited by Harold Kuhn and Albert Tucker. Goldman's appreciation of the contributions of the Princeton group to the areas of game theory, mathematical programming, and combinatorial optimization is eloquently expressed in a citation he authored for the award of the von Neumann Theory Prize to David Gale, Harold Kuhn, and Albert Tucker in 1980.

Read the entire page →

From page 125...

... He played a key role in planning and demand-forecasting for intercity and urban transportation systems. The list of applications Alan and his NBS team investigated and wrote about is vast and includes antimissile defense, mail sorting and distribution systems, runway capacity, impact and viability of new aircraft, network viability, lead paint poisoning, pesticide propagation, arms control modeling, and fire department operations.

Read the entire page →

From page 126...

... As an emeritus professor he continued to supervise the research projects of graduate students and to develop and teach new courses in operations research, such as "Math in Sports" and "Supply Chain Management." Students with serious academic aspirations benefited enormously from the unfailing care he put into his efforts as teacher and mentor. Alan's death resulted in a huge outpouring of comments from the many colleagues and students whose lives had been deeply touched by him, and from these comments familiar themes emerge.

Read the entire page →

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ALAN J. GOLDMAN Pages 122-127

ALAN J. GOLDMAN
Pages 122-127