MSC2020's 49, 65, 68, 90 and 93 blocks: mathematics aimed at computing an answer or steering a system, rather than proving a structure exists. Belongs here: numerical analysis, computational complexity theory, applied and computational mathematics, control theory, operations research and optimization. Does not belong here: computability theory, grouped under Logic, Foundations and Set Theory, which asks what can be computed at all rather than how to compute it well.
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Dantzig published the Simplex algorithm in 1947, and also John von Neumann and other researchers worked on the theoretical aspects of linear programming (like the theory of duality) around the same time.
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