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.

I hate it. I'm simply going out of my mind to try and calculate any kind of Simplex Tableau. The fractions are the most God-awful things I've ever tried to compute. It doesn't help that a single ...

While sitting in a courtroom, waiting to find out if he would be chosen for jury duty, Daniel Spielman had a revelation-all the work he and colleague Shanghua Teng had built up over the past three ...