[2] Published by the Cambridge Philosophical Society in a 1959 article entitled "The Shortest Path Through Many Points", the theorem provides a practical solution to the "travelling salesman problem".
[4] After university, Beardwood accepted a position at the newly formed United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), where she was one of four postgraduate students selected to study with John Hammersley, a professor at Trinity College, Oxford.
She was later promoted to Senior Scientific Officer at the UKAEA, where she specialized in Monte Carlo methods and algorithms for modeling complex geometrical situations.
One of Beardwood's most cited studies for the GLC, "Roads Generate Traffic", found that highway construction encourages people to drive and leads to increased congestion.
[9] Similarly, her later work included a study which predicted that the proposed East London River Crossing would quickly become congested if there were no significant routes available to provide relief.