The death of mathematician George Dantzig is a scientific watershed. Dantzig developed "linear programming" and the simplex method, used to solve complex efficiency problems for large organizations.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper, a modification of the bisection simplex method is made for more general purpose use. Organized in an alternative simpler form, ...

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: ...

The transportation method of linear programming is extended to a more general class of problem, for which the "stepping-stone method" of Charnes and Cooper fails. The method is applicable to various ...