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Reminiscences about the origins of linear programming

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George B. Dantzig

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1984; Volume 48, Number 298
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2298-2 (print); 978-1-4704-0708-7 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0298
MathSciNet review: 733260
MSC: Primary 01A60; Secondary 90-03

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • Reminiscences about the origins of linear programming
  • Functional analysis in the theory of partial differential equations
  • Some influences of population biology on mathematics
  • PDE generalizations of the Sturm comparison theorem
  • Stochastic theory of epidemics—continuing efforts to achieve realism
  • The origins of turning point theory