The Diet Problem
Published Online:1 Aug 1990https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.20.4.43
Abstract
This is a story about connections. If a certain event hadn't happened way back in 1937, then 10 years later it is certain that linear programming and the simplex method would never have happened (at least not then), and many people's lives and the way some enterprises plan their future would have turned out quite differently.
