William W. Cooper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William W. Cooper

American academic

Date of Birth: 23-Jul-1914

Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Date of Death: 20-Jun-2012

Profession: mathematician, economist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

William Wager Cooper (July 23, 1914 – June 20, 2012) was an American operations researcher, known as a father of management science and as "Mr.
Linear Programming".
He was the founding president of The Institute of Management Sciences, founding editor-in-chief of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, a founding faculty member of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University), founding dean of the School of Urban and Public Affairs (now the Heinz College) at CMU, the former Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting at Harvard University, and the Foster Parker Professor Emeritus of Management, Finance and Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin.