Linear Programming

Publication loaded close info DETAILS list OUTLINE image FIGURES subtitles TABLES video_library MEDIA perm_media SUPPLEMENTS link REFERENCES format_quote CITED BY more_horiz RECOMMENDED home PDF Page 1 / 6 fullscreen remove_circle_outline add_circle_outline search group_add more_horiz get_app LINEAR PROGRAMMING GEORGE B. DANTZIG Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4023 The Story About How It Began: Some legends, a little about its historical significance, and comments about where its many mathematical programming extensions may be headed. L inear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay out a path of detailed decisions to take in order to “best” achieve its goals when faced with practical situations of great complexity. Our tools for doing this are ways to formulate real-world problems in detailed mathematical terms (models),

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