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			== Personal life section contains info about education ==
	== New link ==

			It's already covered in the Education section, so no need to reiterate it. Especially given that it doesn't provide context for anything. ] (]) 04:47, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
	I offer to add new link to the article:

			== Can we get a better photo? ==
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			The current photo is blurry and low quality. It would be nice to get a portrait, if possible. ] (]) 21:14, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
	What do you think about it?

			== National pedigree vs linguistic pedigree ==
	--] 14:55, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

			QUOTE: George Bernard Shaw, the Irish writer. END OF QUOTE.
	== elaborate on the "unsolvable" problems ==

			George Bernard Shaw was known as a British writer in my younger days. Did any of the creepy spontaneous geniuses who abound in Misplaced Pages pages find that information was wrong? Inserting misinforamtion onine seems to be a pastime for creeps. ] (]) 10:01, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
	The article says that Dantzig solved two problems that were initially believed to be unsolvable, but makes no mention of what those two problems were. Could someone with expertise in this field please consider adding details about those two problems? --] (]) 05:43, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

	: I’m not an expert on this topic, but with a little googling around I found the following article , which mentions following facts:
	:* Dantzig solved those problems in year 1939
	:* Six week later Dantzig’s professor has prepared one of his two “homework” proofs for publication
	:* The second problem was not published (except in Dantzig’s PhD thesis) until after the ], when another mathematician, Abraham Wald, rediscovered the proof, and they co-published the paper together in ''The Annals of Mathematical Statistics''.
	: These facts lead me to believe that the two papers were “{{cite jstor\|2235875}}”, and “{{cite jstor\|2236704}}”, and thus the two problems are:
	:# For a family of iid normal random ''N''(''μ'',''σ''²) variables with unknown mean and variance, find a ] with ] independent of ''σ''. (The answer to this problem is negative: no such test exists).
	:# (The second is trickier and I cannot quite figure out how to put it in terms simple enough that it could have fit on a blackboard).
	: ... <b>]</b> <span style="color:#aaa">» ] »</span> 02:28, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

			==Solved unsolved mathematical problems==
	== Award in his name ==
			The article should state what the two unsolved problems solved by Dantzig are, otherwise it sounds like urban legend. ] (]) 01:25, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

	] has a Prize in his honor, ref. --] (]) 04:41, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

	== Worksection removed ==

	Due to possible violation of copyright, see ], I have removed the worksection of this article for now. -- ] (]) 08:42, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
	P.S. I apologize for all inconvenience I have caused here, see also '']''. If you would like to assist in improving this article, please let me know. I can use all the help I can get. Thank you.

	== What does this mean ==
	In the Biography section it says "Early in the 1920s the family moved over Baltimore to Washington." What has Baltimore to do with anything? The family was in Oregon. Is it trying to say "Early in the 1920s the family moved to Baltimore and then to Washington"? -- ] (]) 20:14, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

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Personal life section contains info about education

It's already covered in the Education section, so no need to reiterate it. Especially given that it doesn't provide context for anything. EditorPerson53 (talk) 04:47, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Can we get a better photo?

The current photo is blurry and low quality. It would be nice to get a portrait, if possible. 2601:547:501:8F90:D9D:D2D3:48A0:85FB (talk) 21:14, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

National pedigree vs linguistic pedigree

QUOTE: George Bernard Shaw, the Irish writer. END OF QUOTE.

George Bernard Shaw was known as a British writer in my younger days. Did any of the creepy spontaneous geniuses who abound in Misplaced Pages pages find that information was wrong? Inserting misinforamtion onine seems to be a pastime for creeps. 117.223.88.242 (talk) 10:01, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Solved unsolved mathematical problems

The article should state what the two unsolved problems solved by Dantzig are, otherwise it sounds like urban legend. 166.48.16.200 (talk) 01:25, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

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