Betty W. Holz

Betty Rose Weber Holz (September 15, 1919 – September 3, 2005) was an American mathematician who worked for the United States Army.

Early life and education Betty Rose Weber was born in Florida, the daughter of William Wilson Weber and Rosalie I. Langford Weber. Her father was a math professor.

Weber earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Columbia College in 1940. She completed a master's degree in mathematics at the University of South Carolina in 1949, and pursued further graduate studies at the University of North Carolina and at American University. As a student, she won a medal for excellence in piano performance. In the 1960s and 1970s, she helped to develop ELIM (the Enlisted Loss Inventory Model) and COMPLIP (Computation of Manpower Programs Using Linear Programming), early computer programs for modeling military manpower and logistics.

Holz was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Operations Research Society of America, and the American Mathematical Society. Table of Exponentially Distributed Pseudo-random Numbers (1959, with Charles E. Clark) Operational mobility of armored units: The ROAM simulation (1961)

"The Army's Approach to Improved Strength Forecasting" (1981, with James M. Wroth)

Personal life Weber married chemical engineer Eugene Russell Holz in 1952. She died in 2005, aged 85 years, in Maryland.