Below you’ll find links to articles I wrote for VEJA Negócios, a Brazilian business magazine. In this series of articles, I present the history and some fun facts about the field of Operations Research. I will soon post AI-based translations of these articles, but if you read Portuguese (or perhaps Spanish), I hope you enjoy them.
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George, quem?
Esse nome tem a ver com a história da Pesquisa Operacional, área que investiga formas ótimas de atingir objetivos econômicos com recursos escassos
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O Gênio Discreto de George B. Dantzig
O contemporâneo de J. R. Oppenheimer que desenvolveu métodos matemáticos de otimização valiosos na economia moderna