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Of interest perhaps to HES-LIST:
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:00:00 -0400
Reply-to: Discussion List on the History of Mathematics
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From: "Randy K. Schwartz" <rschwart@SCPO2.LV.SCHOOLCRAFT.CC.MI.US>
Subject: Golden Jubilee of simplex algorithm
To: MATH-HISTORY-LIST@ENTERPRISE.MAA.ORG
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of George Dantzig*s invention of
the simplex algorithm. I would appreciate any references to printed, on-line
or audiovisual materials _accessible to a community college student_ writing
an essay to mark this anniversary.
I am aware of the following two items:
Donald J. Albers with Constance Reid, **An Interview with George B. Dantzig:
The Father of Linear Programming**, _College Mathematics Journal_ 17:4 (Sept.
1986), pp. 293-313.
Robert Freund et al., **Professor George Dantzig: Linear Programming Founder
Turns 80**, _SIAM News_ (November 1994) (also available at
<http://www-or.stanford.edu/faculty/dantzig.art.html>)
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