L. R. Ford, Jr.
Mathematician, Author
1927 –
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Who is L. R. Ford, Jr.?
Lester Randolph Ford, Jr. is an American mathematician specializing in network flow problems. He is 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. With Richard Bellman, Ford also developed the Bellman–Ford algorithm for finding shortest paths in graphs that have negatively weighted edges.
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- Born
- Sep 23, 1927
Houston - Also known as
- Lester Randolph Ford, Jr.
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- Nationality
- United States of America
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on July 23, 2013
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