Always be on time, we are taught. Promptness is, after all, a virtue. But one time, being late paid off spectacularly for one tardy student. And we are all the better today for it. Here’s how it ...
GEORGE B. DANTZIG, pioneer in operations research and management science, mathematician, professor, educator, consultant, author, and “father” of linear programming, died on May 13, 2005, at the age ...