These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...

SoPlex is an optimization package for solving linear programming problems (LPs) based on an advanced implementation of the primal and dual revised simplex algorithm. It provides special support for ...

Struggling with a problem that seems to require trigonometry? This lesson shows how to solve it without using trigonometry, using two easy methods anyone can apply. With clear logic and step-by-step ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

OpenAI recently unveiled its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models, o1-preview and o1-mini (also referred to as “Strawberry”), claiming a significant leap in the reasoning capabilities of large ...

HiGHS is open-source optimization software for linear programming (LP), mixed-integer programming (MIP) and quadratic programming (QP). This talk will give an insight into the state-of-the-art ...

Operations research professionals need the best linear programming software for Windows to solve optimization problems. Below we offer a tool that comes with all the essentials to help you perform a ...