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Known as the British father of linear programming (LP), Steven Vajda was a mathematician, educator, mentor, one of mathematical programming’s true pioneers, and the person who introduced linear programming to both Europe and Asia. He was a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Brunel University (West London), and was promoted Honorary Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Budapest.

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Acknowledgments

The primary sources for this profile are the interview (Bather 1995), the detailed account of Stevens’s work (Haley and Williams 1998), M. F. Shutler’s citation for the Award of the Companionship of the Operational Research Society to Steven (Shutler 1995), and the obituary by Krarup (1996). Supplementary material, not available elsewhere, was acquired via personal communication with Steven’s daughter, Hedy Firth, and his last coauthor, Brian Conolly. Their kind assistance and permission to use, quote, and paraphrase their material on Steven is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Jakob Krarup

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  1. , School of Management, University at Buffalo, State University, Jacobs Management Center 160, Buffalo, 14260-4000, New York, USA

    Arjang A. Assad

  2. Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, Van Munching Hall, College Park, 20742-1915, Maryland, USA

    Saul I. Gass

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Krarup, J. (2011). Steven Vajda. In: Assad, A., Gass, S. (eds) Profiles in Operations Research. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 147. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6281-2_2

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