George Dantzig, who has died aged 90, was a mathematician who created the algorithm responsible for linear programming, now a vital tool in industry and computing; in 1980, it was estimated to be by ...

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 manufacture ...

A Berkeley graduate student, George Dantzig, was late for class. He scribbled down two problems from the blackboard and handed in solutions a few days later. But the problems on the board were not ...

In 1939, George Dantzig was pursuing a doctoral programme in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied statistics under Jerzy Neyman. Of all his achievements, a ...