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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: George Dantzig, Max August Zorn, Stephen Smale, Richard Hamming, Pafnuty Chebyshev, Alexander Kronrod, Claude Lemarechal, Douglas Hartree, Peter Lax, Leslie Fox, Carl R. de Boor, Steven A. Orszag, Daniel Shanks, Narendra Karmarkar, Max Gunzburger, Olek Zienkiewick, John Wrench, Cornelius Lanczos, David M. Young, Jr., Henk van der Vorst, Phillip Colella, William Kahan, Gene H. Golub, Jack Howlett, Paul Garabedian, Richard S. Varga, Nicholas Higham, Carl David Tolme Runge, Bram van Leer, Naum Z. Shor, Fritz John, Douglas N. Arnold, John Bell, Cleve Moler, Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov, Bradley Alpert, Philip J. Davis, Germund Dahlquist, Stanley Osher, Ami Harten, John G.F. Francis, Charles F. Van Loan, Lloyd Nicholas Trefethen, Yousef Saad, Bjorn Engquist, Martin Wilhelm Kutta, Endre Suli, Christopher Budd, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lebedev, Michael Heath, Alston Scott Householder, Alexandre Chorin, Phyllis Fox, Alexander Ostrowski, Yinyu Ye, Qiang Du, Ervand Kogbetliantz, John C. Butcher, David Luenberger, Evgenii Georgievich D'yakonov, Philippe G. Ciarlet, John Todd, Esmail Babolian, Nimrod Megiddo, Irene Stegun, Hans Bruun Nielsen, Milton Abramowitz, Iain S. Duff, Karl Hessenberg, Brian Ford, Nikolay Govorun. Excerpt: George Bernard Dantzig (November 8, 1914 - May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made important contributions to operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems, and his work with linear programming, some years after it was invented by the Soviet mathematician & economist Leonid Kantorovich. In statistics, Dantzig solved two open problems in statistical theory, which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture of Jerzy Neyman....
