Roughly, we will cover the following topics (some of them may be skipped depending on the time available). Linear Programming: Basics, Simplex Algorithm, and Duality. Applications of Linear ...

P.Q. Pan, A MODIFIED BISECTION SIMPLEX METHOD FOR LINEAR PROGRAMMING, Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 14, No. 3 (JULY 1996), pp. 249-255 ...

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.