George Dantzig - Linear Programming: 1: Introduction (1997)

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Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances —all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal

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