Ailsa Land
Facts
23 properties- Instance of
- human
- Date of birth
- June 14, 1927
- Date of death
- May 16, 2021
- Place of birth
- West Bromwich
- Country of citizenship
- United Kingdom[6]
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Field of work
- operations research[8]
- Award received
- EURO Gold Medal, Harold Larnder Prize, Beale Medal[13][14][15]
- Spouse
- Frank Land[5]
- Doctoral advisor
- George Morton[12]
- Doctoral student
- Gilbert Laporte, Douglas R. Shier[17][18]
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy[19]
- Academic thesis
- An application of the techniques of linear programming to the transportation of coal[22]
- Maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- Name in native language
- Ailsa Land
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- LSEThesisProject
- ISNI
- 0000000073864599
- VIAF cluster ID
- 41440006
- Library of Congress authority ID
- no97002318
- GND ID
- 1253943877
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ailsa Land, c1980s (4437665957).jpg ↗
- CONOR.SI ID
- 113967459
- Canadiana Authorities ID (former scheme)
- 0024G9274
- Canadiana Name Authority ID
- ncf10022088
- CiNii Research ID
- 1140282266777678848
- DBLP author ID
- 141/4721
- Described at URL
- www.informs.org
- Dimensions author ID
- 010004046257.54
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- Google Knowledge Graph ID
- /g/11gv06n6gq
- IdRef ID
- 194262448
- MR Author ID
- 109780
- Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
- 60076
- NACSIS-CAT author ID
- DA10448373
- NUKAT ID
- n2011066449
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987014797894305171
- RERO ID (legacy)
- A003492666
- Semantic Scholar author ID
- 50590319
- UOM ID
- 82683
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJyxmm9JG3t4Wbq3wTRkDq
- Yale LUX ID
- person/a9d10553-824f-4d95-927a-fc35f7be600d
- ZbMATH author ID
- land.ailsa-h
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Summary
Born in West Bromwich[1], she… she was born on June 14, 1927[2]. She died on May 16, 2021[3]. She worked as a mathematician[4].
Body
Education
Educated at Malvern Collegiate Institute[10], a high school[24], in Canada[25], founded in 1903[26] and London School of Economics and Political Science[11], a public research university[27], in United Kingdom[28], founded in 1895[29], headquartered in London[30].
Career and Affiliations
Doctoral students include Gilbert Laporte[17], a professor[31], b. 1956[32], of Canada[33], awarded the Jacques Rousseau Award[34] and Douglas R. Shier[18].
Recognition
Awards received include EURO Gold Medal[13], an award[35], founded in 1985[36]; Harold Larnder Prize[14], an award[37]; and Beale Medal[15], an academic award[38], founded in 1992[39].
Why It Matters
She is credited with the discovery of branch and bound[40], an algorithm[41].
FAQs
Where was Ailsa Land born?
Born in West Bromwich[1].
Who was Ailsa Land married to?
Ailsa Land's spouses include Frank Land[5].
What did Ailsa Land do for work?
Ailsa Land worked as mathematician[4].
Where did Ailsa Land go to school?
Ailsa Land was educated at Malvern Collegiate Institute[10] and London School of Economics and Political Science[11].
What awards did Ailsa Land receive?
Honors received include EURO Gold Medal[13], Harold Larnder Prize[14], and Beale Medal[15].
What did Ailsa Land discover?
Ailsa Land is credited as discoverer of branch and bound[40].