The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to ...

This algorithm utilizes a decomposition approach. It iterates between a linear programming transportation problem which optimally allocates previously set plant production quantities to various ...

Richard J. Hanson, Charles L. Lawson, Extensions and Applications of the Householder Algorithm for Solving Linear Least Squares Problems, Mathematics of Computation ...