D.R. Fulkerson died in Ithaca, New York on 10 January 1976. To honor his memory we thought it fitting to organize a volume dedicated to him, containing articles describing his contributions as well as him as a man, but primarily devoted to a subject matter to which he was a principal contributor. "Polyhedral combinatorics," the interplay between concepts from combinatorial theory and mathematical programming, was the central theme of Ray's research, and this volume attests to the interest and continuing activity in the area. Two issues of other journals have been dedicated to Fulkerson: Mathematics of Operations Research, Volume 1, Number 4 (November 1976) and The Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B, Volume 23, Number 1 (August 1977). Further, the Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society are jointly sponsoring the Fulkerson Prize for outstanding research in discrete mathematics which, starting in 1979, will be presented at each (triennial) International Symposium of the Mathematical Programming Society.
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