Dantzig

The great ornament is the picture by John Van Eyck known as the Dantzig picture.

Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Lady Biddulph of Ledbury

The great ornament is the picture by John Van Eyck known as the Dantzig picture.

Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. Ledbury, Lady Bidulph of 1910

One day, when one of his best captains was about to sail on a voyage to the northeast, to Dantzig, which is almost as far as Russia, he inquired of his bad-tempered vrouw what he should bring her.

Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

Obey me and we will get through the siege of Dantzig, which is only just beginning. "

Barlasch of the Guard Henry Seton Merriman 1882

Will you deliver a letter for me in Dantzig, that is all I ask? "

Barlasch of the Guard Henry Seton Merriman 1882

“Alas!” wrote mathematician Tobias Dantzig, “what was once hailed as a monument to monotheism ended in the bowels of a robot.”

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

“Alas!” wrote mathematician Tobias Dantzig, “what was once hailed as a monument to monotheism ended in the bowels of a robot.”

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

“Alas!” wrote mathematician Tobias Dantzig, “what was once hailed as a monument to monotheism ended in the bowels of a robot.”

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

* As a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, Dantzig saw two statistical problems on a blackboard and solved both, thinking they were a homework assignment.

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

George Dantzig explains how linear programming began:

How Linear Programming Began « Isegoria 2008