Jonathan Rosenhead

Jonathan Vivian Rosenhead (born 21 September 1938)[1] is a British mathematician, operational researcher and Labour Party activist.[2]

Biography

Jonathan Rosenhead is the son of mathematician Louis Rosenhead.[1] He studied at the University of Cambridge (St. John's College) where he received a B.A. degree in mathematics in 1959.[2] He continued his studies at University College London where he received an M.Sc. degree in statistics in 1961, and an M.A. from Cambridge in 1963. He worked as an operational researcher at United Steel Companies in Sheffield in 1961-63 and at Science in General Management Ltd. (SIGMA) in Croydon in 1963-66 before returning to the academic world.

Academic career

Rosenhead spent 1966-67 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and its Management Science Centre, where Russell L. Ackoff was professor. In 1967 he joined the London School of Economics as a lecturer in operational research. He became a senior lecturer in 1981 and professor of operational research in 1987.[2] He retired in 2003.

Within operational research (OR), Rosenhead is primarily associated with the development of "soft OR" from the late 1970s, which resulted in the development of a number of new OR methods. He was the editor of the first book to gather a number of problem structuring methods within one volume, Rational analysis for a problematic world, published in 1989.[3]

He was president of the Operational Research Society in 1986-87.

Political activism

Rosenhead was a Labour Party candidate for Parliament in the 1966 election.[2] He was active in the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science over a 20-year period, including a stint as chair of the society. His political activities has included being chairman of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) and being information officer for Jewish Voice for Labour.

gollark: You would still need to eat things as feedstock for the food fabricators, too.
gollark: They will switch to "constantly on at maximum power".
gollark: Except all this will inevitably offload to the C L O U D and fail when that goes down.
gollark: "It nanofabricates bread and toasts it before you even say you want bread!"
gollark: Especially if toasters later end up getting nanotech self repair mechanisms as well as, say, predictive toasting AI.

References

  1. Stuart, J. T. (1986) Louis Rosenhead. 1 January 1906-10 November 1984. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 32, 407–420. doi:10.2307/770118
  2. Professor Jonathan Rosenhead, The London School of Economics and Political Science, accessed 2019-10-25.
  3. Rosenhead, Jonathan, ed. (1989). Rational analysis for a problematic world: problem structuring methods for complexity, uncertainty, and conflict. Chichester, UK; New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0471922858. OCLC 19847533.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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