A Special Issue in Memory of George B. Dantzig
By: Egon Balas, Alan J. Hoffman and S. Thomas McCormick
 When George B. Dantzig died, the late Peter Hammer and Jon Lee (at the time editors of Discrete Optimization asked us to be Guest Editors of a memorial volume of the journal in memory of George. All of us were very fond of George, and so we gladly accepted.
We put out a call for papers, and we also invited four papers from leading authorities surveying George’s contributions in four fields:
- Numerical optimization, by Philip Gill, Walter Murray, Michael Saunders, John Tomlin, and Margaret Wright.
- Economics, by Kenneth Arrow.
- Integer programming, by Martin Grötschel and George Nemhauser.
- The theory of computation, by Richard Karp.
We note that George had enormous impact on other areas of research as well. One example that was a life-long interest of his, and where he made many advances, is stochastic optimization.
Our call for papers elicited many high-quality submissions. These were subject to the normal refereeing procedures of the journal. Of these we accepted 26 papers in a wide variety of areas, which is a fitting tribute to the breadth of George Dantzig’s own interests.
George Dantzig was clearly a giant influence on many aspects of Operations Research, and his death occasioned many tributes and surveys of his work. In view of this, here we will limit ourselves to a few comments on our personal interactions with George.
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Editor-in-Chief
Nimrod Megiddo
IBM Almaden Research Center
Volume 5 Issue 2
In Memory of
George B. Dantzig
Edited by:
Egon Balas, Alan J. Hoffman and S. Thomas McCormick
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