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Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale FRS〔http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/33/22.full.pdf http://www.jstor.org/pss/769945〕 (8 September 1928-1985) was an applied mathematician and statistician who was one of the pioneers of mathematical programming. ==Career== He was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with First Class Honours in Mathematics in 1949 and gaining a Diploma in Mathematical Statistics in 1950. He then joined the Mathematics Group at the UK Admiralty Research Laboratory, working under Stephen Vajda for 11 years, except for a leave of absence in 1957/58 to assist the Statistical Techniques Research Group at the University of Princeton. 〔C-E-I-R handbook ''new approaches to management control'', Jan 1963, p10 http://sciconconnect.com/index.php?option=com_morfeoshow&task=view&gallery=3&Itemid=24〕〔''Optima'' 18, p1 http://www.mathopt.org/Old-Optima-Issues/optima18.pdf〕〔Obituary in ''The Times'' Dec 28 1985, p8〕〔http://www.springerlink.com/content/575u105417tw343x/〕 In 1955 he extended George Dantzig's Simplex Algorithm to minimise a quadratic function.〔 The extension also applied to other convex functions and to linear programming with random variables.〕 In 1961 he became a founder member of a computer services company C.E.I.R (UK), which BP bought and renamed Scicon, and in 1967 he became Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London.〔http://sciconconnect.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=42 Scicon was later sold to System Designers in the 1990s, and eventually to EDS.〕〔See bio in (''Introduction to Optimization'' ).〕 He was Chairman of the Mathematical Programming Society from 1974 to 1976, Vice President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1978 to 1980, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a member of the International Statistical Institute. In 1979, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society "for his applications of mathematical and statistical techniques to industrial problems and for his contributions to the theory of mathematical programming", and he was elected to the Council of the Royal Society in 1984.〔 He was awarded the Silver Medal of the Operational Research Society in 1980, and became Vice President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He was also non-executive Chairman of Beale International Technology.〔 ''The Times'' suggested that he "used his blend of theory and state-of-the-art practice to encourage several generations of young mathematicians and computer scientists," and that his "many papers and his seminal book ''Mathematical Programming in Practice'' were major influences in their field, with their succinctness and clarity."〔 His FRS memoir mentioned his "extraordinary skill" and "substantial contributions to knowledge".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martin Beale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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