At an introductory event for incoming students a couple of days after I arrived at Stanford for the O.R. Ph.D. program, George Dantzig offered to pay 1 dollar for every mistake anyone found in a paper he was preparing for publication.. (1/4)
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He said he would pay a dollar for each mistake, whether a typo or a deep mathematical error. I read his paper and found 7 mistakes - 5 of them were typos and 2 were minor mathematical errors of things which didn't affect the flow or conclusions of the paper, (2/4)
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On another note, I used to have a professor who sneaked unsolved problems in worksheets. I remember spending hours on one of them, finally googling it, and discovering that it was unsolved. Bad memories.
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He is also the father of linear programminghttps://www.wikiwand.com/en/Linear_programming …
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Better algorithms than the SIMPLEX METHOD which should be replaced .
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An academic's dream, right? cc:
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My students are late all the time but none of them ever solve discipline-transforming puzzles.. am I doing something wrong?pic.twitter.com/pU4oXxnree
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