Ron Shamir, Probabilistic Analysis in Linear Programming, Statistical Science, Vol. 8, No. 1, Report from the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Research Council on ...

About the same time, he invented the “simplex method,” an algorithm for solving linear programming problems.

Linear programming -- which is not related to computer programming -- and the Simplex Algorithm provide a means for solving complicated problems with many variables and are generally employed to ...