Lester Randolph Ford, Sr. (October 29, 1886 ? - March 7, 1975 ?) was an American mathematician, editor of the American Mathematical Monthly from 1942 to 1946, and President of the Mathematical Association of America from 1947 to 1948. In 1964 the MAA recognised his contribution to mathematics by establishing the Lester R. Ford Awards for authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly or Mathematics Magazine.

Lester Randolph Ford, Jr. (born September 23, 1927), son of Lester R. Ford, Sr., is an American mathematician specializing in network flow programming. His 1956 paper with D. R. Fulkerson on the maximum flow problem established the maxflow-mincut theorem.

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• Ford circles (Lester R. Ford, Sr.)
• Ford-Fulkerson algorithm (Lester R. Ford, Jr.)

External links

• Lester R. Ford Award (http://www.maa.org/Awards/ford.html)