History of Science and Technology Q&A for Kids and Others (March 10, 2021)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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Operations Research - What Is It?
How do you give an function given some complicated thing where therer lots of ups and downs, how do you find the optimal a solution to that? That had been a problem that there wasn't really a good solution to. The key discovery was the thing called the simplex algarithm, which is basically tells you kind of that if there's a solution, it's always in the corners.
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