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 ...

George Bernard Dantzig, a Stanford University mathematics professor for three decades whose groundbreaking Simplex Algorithm has been used by industry to find the most efficient means to manufacture ...

In 1939, George Dantzig was pursuing a doctoral programme in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied statistics under Jerzy Neyman. Of all his achievements, a ...

George Dantzig, who has died aged 90, was a mathematician who created the algorithm responsible for linear programming, now a vital tool in industry and computing; in 1980, it was estimated to be by ...

Always be on time, we are taught. Promptness is, after all, a virtue. But one time, being late paid off spectacularly for one tardy student. And we are all the better today for it. Here’s how it ...

In 1939, a first-year doctoral student at UC Berkeley named George Dantzig, arrived late to class. His professor, famous statistician Jerzy Neyman, had written two statistics problems on the ...

A Berkeley graduate student, George Dantzig, was late for class. He scribbled down two problems from the blackboard and handed in solutions a few days later. But the problems on the board were not ...

President Gerald Ford, right, presents George Dantzig with the National Medal of Science at an awards ceremony on Oct. 18, 1976, at the White House in Washington, D.C. George B. Dantzig President ...