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Featured Articles and Invitations from the AMS
George B. Dantzig (1914--2005)
Richard Cottle, Ellis Johnson, and Roger Wets
Colleagues and former students recall the life and work of the late American mathematician who discovered the simplex method.
Linear Programming and the Simplex Method
David Gale
The author presents an expository mathematical account of what a linear programming problem is and how Dantzig's simplex method is used to solve it.