An Annotated Timeline of Operations Research: An Informal History (Paperback, Corrected 2005.)

Part 1. Operations research precursors from 1564 to 1873. Part 2. Operations research precursors from 1881 to 1935. Part 3. Birth of operations research from 1936 to 1946. Part 4. Expansion of operations research from 1947 to 1950. Part 5. Mathematical, algorithmic, and professional developments of operations research from 1951 to 1956. Part 6. International activities, algorithms, applications, and operations research texts and monographs from 1957 to 1963. Part 7. Methods, applications, and publications from 1964 to 1978. Part 8. Methods, applications, technology, and publications from 1979 to 2004. Acronyms. Name index. Subject index.