George Dantzig (born 8 November 1914) is a mathematician who introduced the simplex algorithm and is considered the "Father of linear programming".

Dantzig became a prototype of a famous urban legend, when he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley. He accidentally solved two problems that the professor gave to the students as an example of an open problem in statistics; being late for class, Dantzig thought that problems were given as a homework assignment.

External link

• Dantzig biography (http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Dantzig_George.html)

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