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.

Learn how to solve problems using linear programming. A linear programming problem involves finding the maximum or minimum ...

(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 ...