Dantzig developed "linear programming" and the simplex method, used to solve complex efficiency problems for large organizations. Stanford professor Keith Devlin offers insight on Dantzig's influence.

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Perold, André. "Exploiting Degeneracy in the Simplex Method." In Large Scale Linear Programming, edited by G. B. Dantzig, M. A. H. Dempster, and Markku Kallio ...