It turns out, however, that the method can also be viewed as a primal simplex method. The reason for this is that at any stage of the algorithm, by properties b and c of Theorem 1, an ordinary pivot ...

While sitting in a courtroom, waiting to find out if he would be chosen for jury duty, Daniel Spielman had a revelation-all the work he and colleague Shanghua Teng had built up over the past three ...

The death of mathematician George Dantzig is a scientific watershed. Dantzig developed "linear programming" and the simplex method, used to solve complex efficiency problems for large organizations.