Eventually linear programming came to be used in everything from manufacturing to diet planning. George Bernard Dantzig was born in Portland, Ore., on Nov. 8, 1914.

I thought of throwing away my research program.” And in that instant, the cards collapsed. The pair had been trying to discover a way to improve the simplex method, one of the most widely used ...

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 ...