This repository contains a simple implementation of a linear programming solver, in particular for the primal and dual simplex method in tableau form and the application of Gomory's cut in case of ...

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 ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

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A new approach to the local and global explanation based on selecting a convex hull constructed for the finite number of points around an explained instance is proposed. The convex hull allows us to ...