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 ...

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 ...

An 80-year-old problem concerning the simplex method, known as the mathematics of optimization, was recently solved. Getty Images In the movie 'Good Will Hunting,' the protagonist, a janitor at the ...