About the same time, he invented the “simplex method,” an algorithm for solving linear programming problems. “The virtually simultaneous development of linear programming and computers led ...

linear optimization models, Simplex Algorithm, sensitivity analysis, mixed-integer optimization models, branch-and-bound algorithm, network-flow optimization models, nonlinear optimization ...

Marshall, Paul W. "Linear Programming: A Technique for Analyzing Resource Allocation Problems." Harvard Business School Background Note 171-322, January 1971. (Revised November 1975.) ...