George Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig was an American mathematical scientist. He is known for his development of the simplex algorithm. His work is used in manufacturing, advertising, telecommunications, and countless other areas. He died of a heart attack at the age of 80.
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George Bernard Dantzig was an American mathematical scientist. He is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems. His work is used in manufacturing, advertising, telecommunications, and countless other areas. He was the recipient of many honors, including the first John von Neumann Theory Prize in 1974, the National Medal of Science in 1975, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1976. The Mathematical Programming Society honored him by creating the George B. Dentzig Prize, bestowed every three years since 1982 on one or two people who have made a significant impact in the field of mathematical programming. At his death, he was the Professor Emeritus of Transportation Sciences and Professor of Operations Research and of Computer Science at Stanford University.
He died of a heart attack at the age of 80. He had been married for more than 50 years to his wife, the former Anja Dantzigs. They had two children, a son and a daughter-in-law. They are survived by their son, Tobias, and their daughter, Anja, who is a professor of computer science at Stanford. They also have a son, David, who was also a mathematician, and a grandson, David Dantz, who works for the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C. The couple also had a daughter, Victoria, who worked for the Library of Congress. They were married for over 40 years and had two sons, David and David, and one daughter, Jennifer. They died in a car accident in 2009. They have three grandchildren, who are also mathematicians and computer scientists, and two great-granddaughters, both of whom are computer scientists.
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