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George Dantzig, 1914-2005

Posted by timothy on from the life-well-lived dept.

Markus Registrada writes "George Dantzig, the inventor of the Simplex method for solving Linear Programming problems, died on May 13. He was also the now-legendary student who turned in solutions for what he had taken to be a homework assignment, only to find out they had been posted as examples of what were suspected to be unsolvable problems."

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  1. Take off every zig! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I got kicked in the head at a Dantzig concert once, never was quite the same.

  2. Leonid Khachiyan Is Dead at 52; Advanced Computer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Leonid Khachiyan Is Dead at 52; Advanced Computer Math

    "Dr. Khachiyan proposed using an ellipsoid algorithm in approaching theoretical problems believed to be too demanding for the simplex method"

    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/nyregion/22khach iyan.html?pagewanted=print

  3. Re:Leonid Khachiyan Is Dead at 52; Advanced Comput by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude, get your own dead scientist thread.

  4. Mo-o-ther... Tell your children not to walk my way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh wait... wrong Danzig

  5. Re:Karma-whoring clarifier X3 by ToasterofDOOM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    *cough* DATABASE *cough*

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  6. Re:Damn! by sumdumass · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yep.. spiced ham if i remeber right. the spice was added to masq the taste of preservatives in the early renditions of it. The spice eventualy became one of the "selling points" after WW2 when the GI's returned home and it was offered to consumers.

    The Monty Python skit was a play on all the different ways solders would prepare the spam and the taste for it that they brought home from the war. My grandfather went on a revisited spam kick after watching that. Told me all about how it could be used for anythign regular ham could be used for and then some. I even grew up on it back when it was actualy econimical. Now it is somewhat expensive.

  7. Re:So sad. by sumdumass · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Try computerizing the windows and still calling them windows. Hell lindows is close enough to mount a world wide law suite campain.

  8. Re:Oh, now wait a minute... by MustardMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?

  9. Re:RIP by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What does this have to do with anything? What is going on? These replies about previous stories are everywhere..

    Is /. under attack?

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  10. Re:Alternative Rock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What does that have to do with this topic...?

  11. Damn, he's older that I thought by bXTr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mother
    Tell your children not to walk my way
    Tell your children not to hear my words
    What they mean
    What they say
    Mother

    Oh, it's Dantzig? Never listened to him.

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  12. Re:RIP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think it's someone crapflooding with old posts, as with the recent swastika crapflood posts saying "I'm an open proxy, ban me"

    Thus the new kaptcha for posting as an AC

  13. No! by FAUrrego · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    May 13th? Well Happy Birthday to me :( On a side note: This year May 13th was also a Friday. *puts on tinfoil hat*