[HN Gopher] Interview with George Dantzig (2001)
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       Interview with George Dantzig (2001)
        
       Author : downboots
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2022-12-23 18:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | dang wrote:
       | Anybody have a year for this?
        
         | jjtheblunt wrote:
         | https://www.informs.org/Resource-Center/Video-Library/H-T-Vi...
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         | says March 5, 2001
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         | and while that video starts in media res wrt the transcript,
         | with the father of linear programming question, that question
         | and his response are in the transcript verbatim, it seems.
        
           | dang wrote:
           | Perfect, thanks!
           | 
           | That video is also at
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WD3g8IwUew.
        
             | jjtheblunt wrote:
             | ( thanks for all you (plural perhaps) do )
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related:
       | 
       |  _Tales of Statisticians: George B. Dantzig_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315825 - Sept 2014 (3
       | comments)
       | 
       | https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
        
       | throwaway81523 wrote:
       | Dantzig was the guy who showed up late to statistics class one
       | day, saw some problems on the blackboard, wrote them down, and
       | turned in the solutions a couple weeks later apologizing for the
       | lateness and saying that that week's assignment seemed harder
       | than usual. No George, that wasn't a homework assignment, those
       | were examples of then-currently unsolved problems in that
       | particular topic. The professor showed up at Dantzig's house on a
       | Sunday morning asking Dantzig to sign the paper so it could be
       | sent off for publication. That was the first moment that Dantzig
       | had any inkling that it wasn't the regular course homework. A
       | true legend.
       | 
       | https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-unsolvable-math-proble...
        
       | layer8 wrote:
       | This reminds me how I once took a CS class titled something like
       | "Optimization and Integer Programming", which turned out to be
       | about quite different notions of programming and optimization
       | than I had expected.
        
       | fmajid wrote:
       | The Soviets actually pioneered a lot of this stuff in the 1920s
       | and 1930s as part of their planned economy, but of course they
       | didn't have computers back then. They'd even tried to solve for
       | the minimum-cost diet problem but had to reject it because it
       | ended up some unpalatable combo of flour and vitamin-fortified
       | margarine. Leonid Kantorovich had proposed a solution in 1939,
       | but Dantzig's simplex algorithm was the first formally proven and
       | practical method. Logistics has always been the US Armed Forces'
       | forte, and this, along with other Operations Research
       | breakthroughs from RAND Corporation is how the US built its edge.
        
         | 082349872349872 wrote:
         | Kantorovich's applied maths was very applicable indeed. During
         | the siege of Leningrad, he was calculating things like optimal
         | baskets and convoy distances to maximise utility of the only
         | route not Nazi-held.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_of_Life#Construction_and_...
        
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