www.informs.org This website is maintained by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the main professional organization in these fields in the United States. It contains information on (and/or links to) news items about operations research and management science and employment opportunities and summer internships; it also has a student newsletter. Much of the material is written in a nontechnical style.

www.hsor.org/what_is_or.cfm?name=linear_programming This website discusses how linear programming fits into the broader subject of operations research.

www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Dantzig_George.html This site contains biographical information about George Dantzig, who, by developing the simplex method, greatly expanded the use and applicability of linear programming.

www.neos-guide.org/content/lp-faq This site is the “frequently asked questions” section of an online newsgroup for people interested in linear programming.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_programming This website outlines the theory of linear programming.