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Dantzig, George B.

Dantzig, George B. (Bernard)

(1914–  ) operations researcher; born in Portland, Ore. A chief combat analyst during World War II, and father of linear programming, he taught longest at Stanford University (1966). A National Academy of Sciences member (1977), he is the author of Linear Programming and Extensions (1963) and Compact City (1973).
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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