Merrill Meeks Flood

1908

1991(1991-00-00) (aged 82–83)

American

Mathematician

Biography[edit]

Flood received an MA in mathematics at the University of Nebraska, and a PhD at Princeton University in 1935 under the supervision of Joseph Wedderburn, for the dissertation Division by Non-singular Matric Polynomials.

In the 1930s he started working at Princeton University, and after the War he worked at the Rand Corporation, Columbia University, the University of Michigan^[3] and the University of California.

In the 1950s Flood was one of the founding members of TIMS and its second President in 1955. End 1950s he was among the first members of the Society for General Systems Research. In 1961, he was elected President of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA), and from 1962 to 1965 he served as Vice President of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. In 1983 he was awarded ORSA's George E. Kimball Medal.

He was elected to the 2002 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.^[4]

1948, A Game Theoretic Study of the Tactics of Area Defense, RAND Research Memorandum

1949, Illustrative example of application of Koopmans' transportation theory to scheduling military tanker fleet, RAND Research Memorandum.

1951, A Preference Experiment. RAND Research Paper

1951, A Preference Experiment (Series 2, Trial 1).RAND Research Paper

1952, A Preference Experiment (Series 2, Trials 2, 3, 4). RAND Research Paper

1952, Aerial Bombing Tactics : General Considerations (A World War II Study), RAND Research Memorandum.

1952, On Game-Learning Theory and Some Decision-Making Experiments. RAND Research Paper

1952, Preference Experiment. RAND Research Memorandum

1952, Some Group Interaction Models. RAND Research Memorandum

from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

(San Francisco on May 14, 1984).