Model World: Tales from the Time Line—The Definition of OR and the Origins of Monte Carlo Simulation
- 1 October 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Informs Journal on Applied Analytics
- Vol. 35 (5), 429-435
- https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.1050.0160
Abstract
OR began in the 1930s, and many of the leading figures in various sciences and mathematics contributed to its definition and progress.Keywords
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