Proceedings of the First International Conference on Operational Research (Oxford 1957).

Max Davies, RT Eddison, Thornton Page (eds), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Operational research (Oxford 1957). Operations Research Society of America, Baltimore; printed in Great Britain by John Wright & Sons, Bristol, 1957. Volume 1 of the series, 526pp. [++] Includes contributions by numerous early luminaries of the field, including Phillip Morse, George Dantzig, "Concepts, Origins and Use of Linear Programming"; B.O. Koopman, "Combinatorial Analysis of Operations"; Stafford Beer "The Mechanical Simulations of Stochastic Flow", Russel Ackoff, and numerous others. VG copy. [++] There is an old bend to the front right corner of the volume, and the spine lettering is very slightly faded. That said, this is a nice copy of the inaugural volume of this long series. [The volume also comes with a card from the Society stating that the proceedings were sent to members of the society free of charge.] 714.3.