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Apparently there has been an attack on the very fundamentals of modern society and no one noticed. Certainly there was no elevation of the current terror alert level. Not only have two eminent mathematicians - George Dantzig and Leonid Khachiyan - put down their chalk for the last time, but BOTH we tell you, BOTH were experts in Linear Programming. This has to be a conspiracy.

Um, what? Oh right, this is math we are on about and we forgot that most of you have a shift into neutral reaction to math. Not only math, but Monday AND math, thus twice the sheer terror. Get a grip, have a Cup o’Joe
, sit up straight and pay attention.

You need linear programming (LP). You depend on it. LP problems are optimization problems such as: determination of profit maximums, cost minimization, and the analysis of the Game of Chicken from Rebel Without A Cause. You wouldn’t get from here to there without LP: the airlines use it to schedule flights (OK, maybe this tis a bad example, eh?).

And now of course what you dread the most come Monday: a Pop Quiz.

Fly Right Baby
  

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