Wired

Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...
Los Angeles Times

George Dantzig, 90; Created Linear Programming

George B. Dantzig, the mathematician who invented the field of linear programming, which revolutionized the way government and private enterprise planned, scheduled and generally conducted their ...
Harvard Business School

Exploiting Degeneracy in the Simplex Method

Perold, André. "Exploiting Degeneracy in the Simplex Method." In Large Scale Linear Programming, edited by G. B. Dantzig, M. A. H. Dempster, and Markku Kallio ...
Harvard Business School

A Degeneracy Exploiting LU Factorization for the Simplex Method

Perold, André. "A Degeneracy Exploiting LU Factorization for the Simplex Method." In Large Scale Linear Programming, edited by G. B. Dantzig, M. A. H. Dempster, and Markku Kallio. Laxenburg, Austria: ...