Collection Contents

Peer review of articles (correspondence re); correspondence files; drafts and typescripts of articles with occasional correspondence; reports by Dantzig for businesses; occasional subject files and articles by others. 1950-67 1950-67

Article/lecture files [text and overhead projection sheets] 1980s 1980s

Article/lecture files [text and overhead projection sheets] 1980s 1980s

Drafts of articles/final copies 1986-92 1986-92

Files re Air Force research on computers (correspondence, outline of talk, notes, reports, articles) 1947-49 1947-49

Correspondence files 1953 July-Dec., 1954, 1955

Correspondence files 1956 Jan-March and 1959

File of names and addresses of students (UC campus) 1960s

Personal correspondence 1964-65

Copies of Dantzig's correspondence and work on programming from 1948-50

Files on "Compact City" – text, illustrations, student papers from class 1972-75

Assorted correspondence files

1993 date book 1993

Dantzig's reprints and copies of chapters

Results from a stock portfolio test 1991 1991

Systems Optimization Laboratory [SOL] technical reports (3)

Assorted transparencies

S.U. memos, correspondence, etc., 1997 1997

Linear Programming 2 – marked-up galley

Compact City slides and slide script

Transparencies for Feasibility Study for Future City

Future City by Zaghi and Parineth (typescript) 1997 1997

Proposals file 1993-96 1993-96

Assorted correspondence files

C.V. and bibliography

Memoirs About My Own Contribution To Linear Programming And Extensions" 1976 1976

S.U. administrative files

Albers and Reid "An Interview with George B. Dantzig" 1986 (3 cc) 1986

Assorted reprints and articles

Program from his PhD final exam 1946 1946

Lecture files (mostly transparencies with some text and other materials) 1980s 1980s

Large Scale notes

Article typescripts

Energy modeling papers and Energy Technical Reports 1970s 1970s

Files from PILOT Project 1970s 1970s

File of SOL Energy Memos 1970s 1970s

Class files (tests, course outlines, problems, source articles, etc.): UCLA, 1955; unspecified school 1960s; SU 1970-80s

Lecture files (mostly transparencies)

Course evaluation files

Early working papers mostly on linear programming, 1952-64: many are from research done at Rand (1952-58) and contain the finished report and occasionally notes and correspondence

Files from symposia/conferences where he gave a talk

Occasional files of work by others, including a 1911 reprint

One overhead sheet containing a joke

Typescript of Linear Programming 2: Theory and Extensions (with edits by Dantzig)

2 folders on retirement issues

Polaroid photos of students

Restricted materials: GBD's personnel files and class roll books

Compact City illustrations and related materials

Album of photographs ["...'Justification' for the proposal of compact city through examples from the present urban environment."]

Album of photos and illustrations ["Cities that appear to be fantastic have been speculated about for centuries...

Memoirs 1976 (2 files) 1976

Correspondence 1959 (2 files) 1959

Correspondence 1960 1960

Early bibliography for GBD

A Model Airforce Fall 1947 1947

Conditions for Consistency in a Dynamic System (Strategic Air Force)" Fall 1947 1947

[2 papers by GBD on Von Neumann algorithm]

Talk on math techniques of program planning, 1947 1947

Outline – Selection of Optimum Military Programs, 1948 1948

Suggestions on the Classification Problem in Linear Programming, 1948 1948

Linear Programming on SEAC, 1950 1950

Miscellaneous talks, 1950 approx. 1950

Transparencies

Interview with George Dantzig, ILOG, 2001 2001

Bound item: The Work and the Life of Dr. Thomas L. Saaty [2001] 2001

Assorted miscellaneous files

Papers by Dantzig and others

Samples [The Basic George B. Dantzig, 2002] 2002

Archives, GBD

Dantzig, "Planning under uncertainty" 1998 1998

GBD autobiography [misc. biographical items]

GBD vitae

Dynamic Equilibrium 82-2 and 82-3

151 History of mathematics in WWII – correspondence only

Dantzig/Holling manuscript #116 (determining optimal policies for ecosystems) 1978 1978

Consumer Energy Services Model #155 1982-83

Figures: Dantzig/Hu/Hoffman ms

Case ms/Optima #144

#80 abstract [economic growth and dynamic equilibrium] 1984-85

#116, 121, 133 [determining optimal policies for ecosystems]

ls [large scale] model, #146, SF meeting Jan. 1980

Optima publication

Rio ms: Reprinting for North-Holland (148) Nov. 1982

Reminiscence ms (revised 9/1/82 for MP Bonn, Kort, 148)

Math programming Bonn 1982 – the state of the art, 148 1982

#143: (SOL 80-3) Math. Prog. J.

#142 SIAM REVIEW Khachian comments, 1979-80 1979-80

Dantzig/Holling ms revised, 116 28246

On the Reduction of an ...Smaller Linear Program, GBD, 117, 1975-76 1975-76

AMS [Amer. Math. Soc.]: Energy ms, 119, 1976-79 1976-79

A Note on the Objective Function for the PILOT Model, 120

American Scientist #124 (never published)

Bicentennial Conference on MP, Nov. 29, 1976, keynote speech by GBD and Parikh, 127 Nov. 29, 1976

Dantzig/Maier "Formulating and Solving the Network Design Problem by Decomposition" #138, correspondence 1978 1978

Dantzig/Sethi, "Linear Optimal Control Problems and Generalized Linear Programs" 136, correspondence 1977-81 1977-81

78-6 Are Dual Variables Prices?, 134, 1978 1978

133 [one letter received, 1977] 1977

Discovering Hidden Totally Leontief Substitution Systems,130, March 1970 25628

AMS ms: Reminiscences, 148, 1981-84 1981-84

["Time-Staged Methods in Linear Programming Comments, Early History, Future Propects", #144, 1980-82 1980-82

Compact City – Thomas L. Saaty, correspondence 1971-74 1971-74

Compact City – publication permission

Compact City – W. H. Freeman & Co., publishers, 1971-72 1971-72

[many of these files are on his publications/papers, often identified by a number, and contain correspondence and sometimes drafts or finished papers]

Papers by other people [ca. 2/3 of the box]

Bibliographic files

EPRI, Sam Schurr correspondence file 1980-83 1980-83

Dantzig's "Memoirs about my own contributions to linear programming and extensions; some reminiscences and a review of my research," 1976

Sample portfolio

Decomposition research

Agricultural speech and paper

Air pollution

Bibliography

Compl. spanning trees

Crystallography

Cycle in graph that minimizes total cost... technical file

d-step conjecture technical file

A finite program equivalent to an infinite program technical file

Local optimum of bilinear form... technical file

Control and growth models, Gale, Manne

Drews progress reports 1962 1962

M-step conjecture

Minimum no. of basis interchanges

Positive (semi-) definite matrices and mathematical programming technical file

Notes on L.P.: Part XIX the Fixed Charge Program 1954 technical file

Future developments in O.R.

Chemical equilibrium

[the above folders contain research notes, reports/articles by Dantzig and others, correspondence, 1954-90]

CC – ch. 14 Publisher

CC – ch. 15 Publisher

Bell Labs – Holmdel, NJ (PR materials and photographs)

CC illustrations (originals – pen/ink sketches, maps, some with watercolor)

[unlabelled – one page of notes]

Binder: Freshman Seminar Compact City 1975-1976 1975-1976

New Cities

First attempt at manuscript [Compact City]

Draft of dissertation by Mark Benson Wroth 1987 1987

Illustrations and figures for Compact City

M.A. Pollatschek, Compact City essay

Compact City class papers 1971-75 1971-75

Figures [Compact City]

Binder: materials re proposed institute for planning under uncertainty 1990s 1990s

Several files on Compact City

Folders: Letters of recommendation [restricted materials]

Several correspondence files having to do with professional/biographical matters

Material relating to heart valves [some of this relates to his own case and may need to be restricted or shredded

Material on stochastic programming [some may not be by Dantzig]

Binder "1st Draft of Thesis" containing computer printouts

Loose material

Folder: other people's brochures and background about portfolio optimizers

Folder: Benham [Management Corp] – notes re portfolio optimization

Group of files on Compact City, including publishers correspondence 1972-73, general correspondence, 1971-74 1971-74

Files on GBD publications/papers of the 1980s 1980s

One file of correspondence (partly copied) with John von Neumann 1947-50

Here We Are; an autobiography by Wm. Orchard-Hays" October 1989 [worked with GBD at Rand in 1950s] 32782

Files of tss of papers from 1940s [linear programming and economic models] 1940s

Bibliography and Biography files

Papers by others

DIA Associates brochure on The DIA Equity Portfolio Optimizer System [D in DIA is Dantzig]

Several GBD publication files