The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

The Department of the Air Force’s process for determining if airmen and Space Force guardians should receive medical waivers for shaving is about as indecipherable as the infamous flow chart about ...

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Solow teaches the use of quantitative methods such as statistics and modeling for use in decision making to Weatherhead's MBA, master's and PhD students. Solow uses mathematical models, analysis and ...

Abstract: Under the basic frame of evolution computations (EA) and the kernel idea of Nelder-Mead simplex method, a novel evolution algorithm (EA), namely the two dimensions simplex EA (2D-simplexEA), ...

Since its creation more than two decades ago by Daniel Spielman (above) and Shang-hua Teng, smoothed analysis has been used to analyze performance of algorithms other than the simplex method, ...

The simplex method was created by American mathematician and computer scientist George Dantzig, who is well recognized for his work in linear programming. He was born on November 8th, 1914, in ...