| Article ID: | iaor19992123 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 298 |
| End Page Number: | 301 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1998 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Williams H.P., Haley K.B. |
| Keywords: | programming: mathematical |
Steven Vajda, who died in Brighton on 10 December 1995, played a major part for 50 years in the development in Britain of OR in general and Mathematical Programming in particular. He was a companion of the OR Society as well as having received the Silver Medal of the Society. He was an honorary member of the Institute of Actuaries and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. This article is based partly on personal recollections and partly on information obtained from others.