About the same time, he invented the “simplex method,” an algorithm for solving linear programming problems ... “They started out with the simple problem of how to blend the gasoline ...

Treating real-world examples as mathematical problems ... before culminating in a discussion of the Simplex Method. The book also addresses linear programming duality theory and its use in ...

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 ...