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Optimization Trailblazers

"Among the early pioneers in the field whom I admired were economists: Alan Manne, Harry Markowitz, Tjalling Koopmans, Kenneth Arrow, Robert Dorfman, and Wassily Leontief; mathematicians: Johnny von Neumann, David Gale, Harold Kuhn, Lloyd Shapley, Al Tucker, Herb Scarf, and Ralph Gomory; and at the Pentagon: Marshall Wood and Murray Geisler. There were many others who also recognized the potential of linear and mathematical programming and made major contributions to the field."

George Dantzig

In May 2000, e-Optimization.com launched with George Dantzig as the first member of our Who's Who.

A year later, George Dantzig welcomes us into his home as our first Optimization Trailblazer interview. The Father of Linear Programming discusses a career that encompasses many of optimization's milestones, described with his distinctive wit, humor, and humility.

"My father was a mathematician who wrote popular books on mathematics. His most famous is his book entitled Number: The Language of Science. As a teenager, I prepared some of the figures that appeared in the book."

Interview


During the Second World War Just After the War Symposium Zero Emergence of Computers Father of Linear Programming The Economists and Mathematical Programming Optimization and Rules How George Dantzig Solved the Diet Problem How Anne Dantzig Solved the Diet Problem Planning Under Uncertainty