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George B. Dantzig

George Bernard Dantzig
George B. Dantzig at National Medal of Science Awards Ceremony, 1976.jpg
Gerald R. Ford awarded George B. Dantzig at the National Medal of Science Awards Ceremony, 1976
Born (1914-11-08)November 8, 1914
Portland, Oregon
Died May 13, 2005(2005-05-13) (aged 90)
Stanford, California
Citizenship American
Fields Mathematics
Operations research
Computer science
Economics
Statistics
Institutions

U.S. Air Force Office of Statistical Control
RAND Corporation

University of California, Berkeley
Stanford University
Alma mater Bachelor's degrees - University of Maryland
Master's degree - University of Michigan
Doctor of Philosophy - University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor Jerzy Neyman
Doctoral students
Robert Fourer
Alfredo Noel Iusem
Ellis L. Johnson
Thomas Magnanti
Roger J-B Wets
Yinyu Ye
Known for Linear programming
Simplex algorithm
Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition principle
Generalized linear programming
Generalized upper bounding
Max-flow min-cut theorem of networks
Quadratic programming
Complementary pivot algorithms
Linear complementarity problem
Influences Wassily Leontief
John von Neumann
Marshal K. Wood
Influenced Kenneth J. Arrow
Robert Dorfman
Leonid Hurwicz
Tjalling C. Koopmans
Thomas L. Saaty
Paul Samuelson
Philip Wolfe
Notable awards John von Neumann Theory Prize (1974)
National Medal of Science in Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational Sciences (1975)
Harvey Prize (1985)
Harold Pender Award (1995)

U.S. Air Force Office of Statistical Control
RAND Corporation

George Bernard Dantzig (November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics.

Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems, and for his other work with linear programming. In statistics, Dantzig solved two open problems in statistical theory, which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture by Jerzy Neyman.

Dantzig was the Professor Emeritus of Transportation Sciences and Professor of Operations Research and of Computer Science at Stanford.

Born in Portland, Oregon, George Bernard Dantzig was named after George Bernard Shaw, the Irish writer. His father, Tobias Dantzig, was a Baltic German mathematician and linguist, and his mother, Anja Dantzig (née Ourisson), was a French linguist. Dantzig's parents met during their study at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where Tobias studied mathematics under Henri Poincaré, after whom Dantzig's brother was named. The Dantzigs immigrated to the United States, where they settled in Portland, Oregon.


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