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This dimension names the person credited with inventing a specific algorithm. Wikipedia notes that computer science includes the study of "algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory," a field where individual algorithms are commonly credited to the researcher who first described them. Browsing this way collects every algorithm invented by the same person.

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Era of Emergence
1939 CE 1
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1. Wikipedia: Mathematical optimization
WikipediaMathematical optimization, History section
Quote, Mathematical optimization, History section
The term "linear programming" for certain optimization cases was due to George B. Dantzig, although much of the theory had been introduced by Leonid Kantorovich in 1939.
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