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Born November 8, 1914 • Portland • Oregon
Died May 13, 2005 (aged 90) • California
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1975)
Notable Family Members father Tobias Dantzig
Subjects Of Study linear programming • operations research • simplex method
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Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
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Richard Karp
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Saunders Mac Lane
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Donald Knuth
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Richard Dagobert Brauer
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John McCarthy
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John Cocke
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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
British inventor and mathematician
Hörmander, Lars V.
Lars V. Hörmander
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John von Neumann
John von Neumann
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Theodore von Kármán
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Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel
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Charles Steinmetz.
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Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
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