======================= HES POSTING ================= Of interest perhaps to HES-LIST: ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:00:00 -0400 Reply-to: Discussion List on the History of Mathematics <[log in to unmask]> From: "Randy K. Schwartz" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Golden Jubilee of simplex algorithm To: [log in to unmask] This summer marks the 50th anniversary of George Dantzig*s invention of the simplex algorithm. I would appreciate any references to printed, on-line or audiovisual materials _accessible to a community college student_ writing an essay to mark this anniversary. I am aware of the following two items: Donald J. Albers with Constance Reid, **An Interview with George B. Dantzig: The Father of Linear Programming**, _College Mathematics Journal_ 17:4 (Sept. 1986), pp. 293-313. Robert Freund et al., **Professor George Dantzig: Linear Programming Founder Turns 80**, _SIAM News_ (November 1994) (also available at <http://www-or.stanford.edu/faculty/dantzig.art.html>) ===================================================================== Randy K. Schwartz, Chairman email [log in to unmask] Department of Mathematics voice 313/462-4400 extn. 5290 Liberal Arts Building Schoolcraft College "In the Inn of the world there is room for 18600 Haggerty Road _everyone_. To turn your back on even one Livonia, MI 48152-2696 person, for whatever reason, is to run USA the risk of losing the central piece of fax 313/462-4558 your jigsaw puzzle." - Leo F. Buscaglia ===================================================================== ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]