"Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal"
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George B. Dantzig, Mukund N. Thapa (1997) Linear Programming: 1: Introduction. p.xxi
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George Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig (November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematician, who introduced the simplex algorithm and is considered the "father of linear programming".
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