Abstract
During the Second World War a set of mathematical techniques were invented, to help formulate and solve some military and logistics problems, which received their academic recognition in an important conference on linear programming, held in Chicago at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics in 1949. The first rigorous and general essay on linear programming is by Dantzig (1951a), while the first complete account of the simplex method is formulated by Dantzig (1951b).
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2000 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Nicola, P. (2000). Linear Programming and Extensions. In: Mainstream Mathematical Economics in the 20th Century. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04238-0_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04238-0_13
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-08638-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-662-04238-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive