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Known for developing the simplex algorithm for solving linear programming problems, Dantzig was a major contributor in operations research, computer science, and statistics. He also worked with linear programming, some years after it was invented by the Soviet mathematician and economist Leonid Kantorovich. In statistics, Dantzig solved two open problems in statistical theory, which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture of Jerzy Neyman.
Dantzig was the Professor Emeritus of Transportation Sciences and Professor of Operations Research and of Computer Science at Stanford.
