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.

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 ...

(This material is not covered in Fleischer. A good reference text is Hillier and Lieberman, ``Introduction to Operations Research'', published by Holden-Day; the fourth edition of this text came out ...