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Linear Programming

Published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics • Jan 1, 2008
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Authors:
George B. Dantzig

Abstract

An article by George Dantzig, the ‘father of linear programming’. The problem of minimizing or maximizing a function of several variables subject to constraints when all the functions are linear is called a ‘linear program’. Linear programs can be used to approximate the broad class of convex functi...

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