Ralph e gomory biography of williams
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Ralph E. Gomory
American mathematician (born 1929)
Ralph Edward Gomory (born May 7, 1929) is an American applied mathematician and executive. Gomory worked at IBM as a researcher and later as an executive. During that time, his research led to the creation of new areas of applied mathematics.[2]
After his career in the corporate world, Gomory became the president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, where he oversaw programs dedicated to broadening public understanding in three key areas: the economic importance of science and research; the effects of globalization on the United States; and the role of technology in education.[3]
Gomory has written extensively on the nature of technology development, industrial competitiveness, models of international trade, social issues under current economics and law, and the function of the corporation in a globalizing world.[4]
Biography
[edit]Gomory is the son of Andrew L. Gomory and Marian Schellenberg.
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Bio
Ralph E. Gomory is the son of Andrew L. Gomory and Marian Schellenberg Gomory. He received his B.A. from Williams College in 1950, studied at Cambridge University, and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1954.
He served in the U.S. Navy from 1954 to 1957. While in the Navy, he became interested in the mathematics of operations research. Returning to Princeton in 1957 he was named Higgins Lecturer and then Assistant Professor. Among his mathematical achievements at that time were founding contributions to the field of integer programming, an active area of research to this day.
Gomory joined the newly formed Research Division of IBM in 1959 and was named an IBM Fellow in 1964. At IBM, while continuing his significant mathematical work, he helped to establish that company as one of the major research institutions in the world. In 1970 he was named Director of Research of IBM with line responsibility for the Research Division. He continued in a
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Ralph E. Gomory
Ralph E. Gomory was born May 7, 1929, in Brooklyn Heights, New York. He graduated from Williams College in 1950, studied at Cambridge University, and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1954. Gomory then served in the Navy (1954-57) and then was a Higgins Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Princeton before joining IBM's newly formed Research Division in 1959 as a research mathematician.
In his student and graduate student years (Williams, Cambridge, Princeton), Gomory did research on nonlinear differential equations, but his years in the Navy turned his attention to the applied mathematics of operations research. Back at Princeton he obtained the first general cutting-plane algorithms, which established the field of integer programming. It remains an active area of research today.
At IBM Research in the early 1960's, Gomory published papers with Paul Gilmore on the knapsack, traveling salesman and cutting-stock problems,