Born November 8, 1914
Portland, Oregon
Died May 13, 2005 (aged 90)
Stanford, California
Citizenship American
Fields Mathematics
Operations research
Computer science
Economics
Statistics
Institutions
U.S. Air Force Office of Statistical Control
RAND Corporation
University of California, Berkeley
Stanford University
Alma mater Bachelor's degrees - University of Maryland
Master's degree - University of Michigan
Doctor of Philosophy - University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor Jerzy Neyman
Doctoral students
Robert Fourer
Alfredo Noel Iusem
Ellis L. Johnson
Thomas Magnanti
Roger J-B Wets
Yinyu Ye
Known for Linear programming
Simplex algorithm
Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition principle
Generalized linear programming
Generalized upper bounding
Max-flow min-cut theorem of networks
Quadratic programming
Complementary pivot algorithms
Linear complementary problem
Stochastic programming
Influences Wassily Leontief
John von Neumann
Marshal K. Wood
Influenced Kenneth J. Arrow
Robert Dorfman
Leonid Hurwicz
Tjalling C. Koopmans
Thomas L. Saaty
Paul Samuelson
Philip Wolfe
Notable awards John von Neumann Theory Prize (1974)
National Medal of Science in Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational Sciences (1975)
Harvey Prize (1985)
Harold Pender Award (1995)