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Ryan Cory-Wright @ryancorywright.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Hidden gems in OR/MS: "L. V. Kantorovich: The Price Implications of Optimal Planning" www.jstor.org/stable/2727266 Duality theory was almost discovered in the Soviet Union in the 1940s by Kantorovich. His research was halted for ideological reasons.

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Ryan Cory-Wright @ryancorywright.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

When Russia wrote their national anthem, the words changed but the song remained the same as the Soviet one. Today, grants are being cancelled for using the word "inequality" in the abstract (ax<=b). Maybe we can look to history for how to proceed. E.g., how dynamic programming got its name.

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