Ailsa Land | |
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| Born | Ailsa Horton Dicken 14 June 1927 West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England |
| Died | 16 May 2021 (aged 93) |
| Education | Malvern Collegiate Institute |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Known for | Branch and bound algorithm |
| Spouse | Frank Land |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Operational research |
| Institutions | London School of Economics |
| Thesis | An application of the techniques of linear programming to the transportation of coal (1956) |
Ailsa Horton Land (née Dicken; 14 June 1927 – 16 May 2021)[1] was a professor of Operational Research in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and was the first woman professor of Operational Research in Britain. She is most well known for co-defining the branch and bound algorithm along with Alison Doig whilst carrying out research at the London School of Economics in 1960.[2][3] She was married to Frank Land, who is an emeritus Professor at the LSE.[4]
- ^ "Ailsa H. Land". History of O.R. Excellence. INFORMS. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
- ^ A. H. Land and A. G. Doig (1960). "An automatic method of solving discrete programming problems". Econometrica. 28 (3): 497–520. doi:10.2307/1910129. JSTOR 1910129.
- ^ "Staff News". www.lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ "NATIONAL LIFE STORIES AN ORAL HISTORY OF BRITISH SCIENCE Frank Land Interviewed by Thomas Lean" (PDF). British Library Sounds. May–June 2010.