In 1952 Dantzig joined the mathematics division of the RAND Corporation. Although he had a faculty offer from Berkeley, he returned to the Air Force as mathematical advisor to the comptroller. In 1946, he returned to Berkeley to complete the requirements of his program and received his Ph.D. With the outbreak of World War II, Dantzig took a leave of absence from the doctoral program at Berkeley to join the U.S. After a two-year period at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, he enrolled in the doctoral program in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied statistics under Jerzy Neyman. He earned his master's degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1938. from University of Maryland in 1936 in mathematics and physics, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. By the time he reached high school he was already fascinated by geometry, and this interest was further nurtured by his father, challenging him with complicated problems, particularly in projective geometry. Dantzig attended Powell Junior High School and Central High School one of his friends there was Abraham Seidenberg, who also became a professional mathematician. His mother became a linguist at the Library of Congress, and his father became a math tutor at the University of Maryland, College Park. The Dantzigs immigrated to the United States, where they settled in Portland, Oregon.Įarly in the 1920s the Dantzig family moved from Baltimore to Washington. Dantzig's parents met during their study at the University of Paris, where Tobias studied mathematics under Henri Poincaré, after whom Dantzig's brother was named. His father, Tobias Dantzig, was a mathematician and linguist, and his mother, Anja Dantzig (née Ourisson), was a linguist of French Jewish origin. ĭantzig was the Professor Emeritus of Transportation Sciences and Professor of Operations Research and of Computer Science at Stanford.īorn in Portland, Oregon, George Bernard Dantzig was named after George Bernard Shaw, the Irish writer. In statistics, Dantzig solved two open problems in statistical theory, which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture by Jerzy Neyman. George Bernard Dantzig ( / ˈ d æ n t s ɪ ɡ/ Novem– May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics.ĭantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems, and for his other work with linear programming.

National Medal of Science in Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational Sciences (1975) University of California, Berkeley ( PhD)

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