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Computation, Optimization and Control

Concepts about how a computation itself proceeds. Belongs here: Algorithm, currently the one concept mapped to this branch. Does not belong here: any concept that is itself computed rather than a description of a computational procedure.

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Era Of Emergence
1947 1
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1. Wikipedia: Mathematical Optimization
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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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