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Arnold Reisman (August 2, 1934) is an American engineer, historian and author, who was professor of Operations Research at Case Western Reserve
University.
Biography
Arnold Reisman was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1934. He came to the United States
after World War II and graduated from New York's Stuyvesant Height
School of Math and Science in 1951. He received his BS, MS, and PhD
degrees in engineering from University of
California, Los Angeles. He is a registered Professional Engineer in
California, Wisconsin, and Ohio, and has published over 300 papers
in refereed professional journals, along with 16 books. Reisman
served 27 years as Professor of Operations Research at Case Western Reserve
University.
During 1999-2003, he was an invited Visiting Scholar in Turkey
at both Sabanci University, and the Istanbul Technical
University.
He is listed in Who's Who in
America, Who's Who in the World, American Men and Women of
Science, and Two Thousand Notable Americans, and he is a Fellow of
the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Reisman is living
in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Work
His current research interests are technology transfer,
epistemology, meta research, and most recently, the history of
German-speaking professors who, starting in 1933, were exiled from
their homelands by the Third Reich, found sanctuary and work in the
Republic of Turkey, and had a phenomenal impact on science in
general and Turkish universities in particular. Reisman is also
actively pursuing his lifelong interest in sculpting.
He is a great fan of ATATURK and Modern Turkey.
Publications
Reisman published over 200 papers in refereed professional
journals, along with 14 books:
- 1970. Managerial & Engineering Economics. Allyn
& Bacon Publishing Company of Boston.
- 1972. Industrial Inventory Control. With Burton V.
Dean, Muhittin Oral and Michael Salvador. New York : Gordon
and Breach.
- 1972. Systems Approach and the City, edited with Mihajlo
D. Mesarovic. North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam.
- 1973. Health care delivery planning. Edited by Arnold
Reisman and Marylou Kiley. New York : Gordon and Breach
Science Publishers.
- 1973. Discounted Cash Flow Analysis: Stochastic
Extensions. With A.K. Rao. American Institute of Industrial
Engineers, Monograph Series.
- 1979. Systems Analysis in Health-Care Delivery.
Lexington, Mass : Lexington Books.
- 1981. Computer System Selection: An Integrated
Approach. With Jon D. Clark. Praeger Publishers.
- 1981. Materials management for health services.
Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books.
- 1982. Welcome Tomorrow. With Ellen Reisman. North
Coast Publishing Co.
- 1992. Management science knowledge : its creation,
generalization, and consolidation. Westport, Conn. :
Quorum Books.
- 2006. Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and
Atatürk's Vision. Washington, DC : New Academia Pub.,
LLC.
- 2009 "Post-Ottoman Turkey: Classical Music and Opera."
BookSurge Publishing, Charleston, SC
- 2009 "Arts in Turkey: How ancient became contemporary."
BookSurge Publishing, Charleston, SC
- 2009 "Refugees and reform: Turkey’s republican journey."
BookSurge Publishing, Charleston, SC
- 2009 "The transformation of Istanbul: Art galleries reviving
decaying spaces." BookSurge Publishing, Charleston, SC
(Forthcoming)
- 2009 "Turkey and the Shoah." BookSurge Publishing, Charleston,
SC
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