refer proposed training logistics schedules problems dantzig studied time dantzig published simplex algorithm john von neumann developed theory duality year notable researchers mathematical optimization include following richard bellman roger fletcher ronald howard fritz john narendra karmarkar william karush leonid khachiyan bernard koopman harold kuhn l szl lov sz arkadi nemirovski yurii nesterov lev pontryagin r tyrrell rockafellar naum z shor albert tucker major subfields convex programming studies case objective function convex minimization concave maximization
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