Martin Beale

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Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale (born September 8, 1928 in Stanwell Moore , Middlesex , † December 23, 1985 ) was a British mathematician and statistician who dealt with mathematical optimization and operations research .

Life

Beale was the son of a physicist who worked for an oil company and later had a consulting firm. When the family was in Iran in 1932, Beale contracted malaria, which later interrupted his school days. He attended Winchester College from 1942 to 1946 and studied at Cambridge University (Trinity College) with a bachelor's degree in 1949 with top grades and a diploma in mathematical statistics in 1950. He then worked for Steven Vajda in the mathematics department of the Admiralty Research Laboratory (ARL ) in Teddington. 1957/58 he was in the statistics group at Princeton University . In 1961 he was one of the founders of the service provider CEIR (Corporation for Economic and Industrial Research), which applied operations research and mathematical optimization for industry and which was later taken over by British Petroleum (as Scicon). In 1967 he was visiting professor at Imperial College London .

In 1954 he introduced the dual simplex process independently of Carlton Lemke . In addition to George Dantzig , he was also a pioneer of stochastic programming, the application of linear programming to problems with uncertainties.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1979) and on its council. 1974 to 1976 he was director of the Mathematical Programming Society and 1978 to 1980 Vice President of the Royal Statistical Society. Beale was a fellow of the British Computer Society and a member of the International Statistical Institute . In 1980 he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Operations Research Society. In the same year he became Vice President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. In 1988 he was posthumously awarded the EURO gold medal of the European Association for Operations Research Societies.

The Mathematical Optimization Society awards the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize in Mathematical Optimization in his honor and that of William Orchard-Hays .

Fonts

  • Mathematical Programming in Practice, Pitman Publ., London 1968
  • Introduction to Optimization, Wiley 1988
  • with Maurice George Kendall , DW Mann: The discarding of variables in multi-variate analysis , Biometrika, Volume 54, 1967, p. 357

literature

  • J. Tomlin, chapter on Beale in Arjang Assad, Saul Gass Profiles in Operations Research , Springer Verlag 2011
  • Obituary in The Times, December 28, 1985
  • Michael JD Powell , Biographical Memoirs Fellows Royal Society, Volume 33, 1987

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beale: An alternative method for linear programming, Proc. Cambridge Philosophical Society, Volume 50, 1954, 269-275
  2. ↑ Dantzig Linear Programming under uncertainty , Management Science, Volume 1, 1955, 197-206
  3. ↑ Beale: On Minimizing a Convex Function Subject to Linear Inequalities, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Volume 17, 1955, pp. 173-184
  4. ↑ EURO Gold Medal Laureates. European Association for Operations Research Societies, accessed June 17, 2018 .
  5. ^ Beal Orchard Hays Prize
personal data
SURNAME Beale, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beale, Evelyn Martin Lansdowne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Stanwell Moore , Middlesex
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1985