George B. Dantzig

Saul I. Gass ()
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Chapter 13 in Profiles in Operations Research, 2011, pp 217-240 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The influenceof George B. Dantzig on the field of operations research (OR) is best reflected by noting that the he was the first recipient of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) prestigious John von Neumann Theory Prize, an award given annually to a scholar who has made fundamental, sustained contributions to theory in OR and management science (MS). He was the first inductee into the International Federation of Operational Research Societies’ (IFORS) OR Hall of Fame. He is regarded as the father of linear programming (LP). He was awarded the President’s National Medal of Science in 1975 by President Ford. He served as president of TIMS in 1966.

Keywords: Operation Research; Nobel Prize; Linear Programming Problem; Traveling Salesman Problem; Simplex Method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6281-2_13

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