George Bernard Dantzig (Nov 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematician, and the Professor Emeritus of Transportation Sciences and Professor of Operations Research and of Computer Science at Stanford.
Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems, and the independently discovered linear programming some years after it was initially invented by Soviet economist and mat...
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George Bernard Dantzig (Nov 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematician, and the Professor Emeritus of Transportation Sciences and Professor of Operations Research and of Computer Science at Stanford.
Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems, and the independently discovered linear programming some years after it was initially invented by Soviet economist and mathematician Leonid Kantorovich.
George Dantzig was born in Portland, Oregon, and with his middle name "Bernard" named after the writer George Bernard Shaw. His father, Tobias Dantzig, was a Russian mathematician and his mother the French linguist Anja Ourisson. They had met during their study at Sorbonne University in Paris, where Tobias studied with Henri Poincaré. They immigrated to the United States and settled in Portland, Oregon. Early 1920s the family moved over Baltimore to Washington. Anja Dantzig became a linguist at the Library of...
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