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George Bernard Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics.
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science · American mathematician (1914–2005) · mathematician · computer scientist · statistician · university teacher · also George Bernard Dantzig, George Dantzig, George B. Dantzig, Dantzig
Born 8 November 1914 · Died 13 May 2005 · Q337040
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2026· 2 entries
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2005· 3 entries
SFGate: George Bernard Dantzig -- Stanford math professor
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In his home in Stanford, California, of complications from diabetes and cardiovascular disease
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Died 2005-05-13.
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Harold Pender Award (1995).
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1990).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Harvey Prize (1985).
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1976· 1 entry
President Gerald Ford presented Dantzig with the National Medal of Science
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded John von Neumann Theory Prize (1975).
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Won National Medal of Science (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
The National Medal of Science in 1975, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1976
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1973· 1 entry
Founded the Systems Optimization Laboratory (SOL) there
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1966· 1 entry
Joined the Stanford faculty as Professor of Operations Research and of Computer Science
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1963· 1 entry
Dantzig's Linear Programming and Extensions was published by Princeton University Press
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1959).
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
Dantzig joined the mathematics division of the RAND Corporation
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1946· 1 entry
Returned to Berkeley to complete the requirements of his program and received his PhD that year
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1941· 1 entry
Studied at University of California, Berkeley (1939–1941).
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1939· 2 entries
Dantzig solved two unsolved problems in statistics due to a misunderstanding
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Dantzig, who published the simplex method in 1947, and John von Neumann, who developed the theory of the duality in the same year
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1937· 1 entry
Studied at University of Michigan (1936–1937).
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1936· 1 entry
Studied at University of Maryland (1936).
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1932· 1 entry
Studied at Cardozo Education Campus (1932).
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1914· 1 entry
Born 1914-11-08.
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