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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

For decades, a mysterious gap has existed between theory and practice in one of computing's most fundamental algorithms. While George Dantzig's simplex method has efficiently solved real-world ...