The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.
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A few weeks after completing his homework, Dantzig apologized to the professor for taking some extra days to complete it, finding it “harder to do than usual,” he would later recount.
He found the homework “harder to do than usual,” he would later recount, and apologized to the professor for taking some extra days to complete it.
Dantzig’s work would provide the basis for his doctoral dissertation and, decades later, inspiration for the film Good Will Hunting.
Dantzig received his doctorate in 1946, just after World War II, and he soon became a mathematical adviser to the newly formed U.S.
As with all modern wars, World War II’s outcome depended on the prudent allocation of limited resources.
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