In the classical linear programming problem the behaviour of continuous, nonnegative variables subject to a system of linear inequalities is investigated. One possible generalization of this problem ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/2583200 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/2583200 Copy URL A linear programming problem is presented to solve a problem in determining how many ...

The death of mathematician George Dantzig is a scientific watershed. Dantzig developed "linear programming" and the simplex method, used to solve complex efficiency problems for large organizations.