Mina Rees (1902-1997) interview: October 20, 1972
Henry S. Tropp · 1999
John von Neumann provided useful explanations for Rees and was enthusiastic about ENIAC. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) supported diverse projects, including an analog computer used by Ray Pepinsky for crystallography at Pennsylvania State University, astronomical research on trajectories, and research on numerical analysis by C.B. Tompkins, Abe Taub, the Lehmers and Alston Householder. By telling Navy officers about George Dantzig's work for the Air Force on linear programming, ONR aided formation of the Logistics Research Project. Rees describes her hiring by ONR in 1946, the development of aid for analysis and statistics into support for other areas of mathematics, early work on simulation, and people she visited in the United States and abroad. Richard Courant, John Curtiss, George Dantzig, Alston Householder, Mr. and Mrs. D.H. Lehmer, B. Rosser, Abe Taub, C.B. Tompkins, O. Veblen, and John von Neumann are mentioned several times.