OBITUARY: GEORGE B. DANTZIG
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Aug/Sep 2005
George B. Dantzig, a mathematician credited with devising the formula that revolutionized planning, scheduling, network design and other complex functions key to modern business, industry and government, died in mid-May at the age of 90. Dr. Dantzig was known as the father of linear programming and as inventor of an algorithm for solving linear programming problems.
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