Editing 1947 in science (section)

==Mathematics==
* [[John Crank]] and [[Phyllis Nicolson]] describe the [[Crank–Nicolson method]] in [[numerical analysis]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=A practical method for numerical evaluation of solutions of partial differential equations of the heat conduction type|journal=[[Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society]]|volume=43|issue=1|year=1947|pages=50–67|doi=10.1017/S0305004100023197|last1=Crank|first1=J.|authorlink1=John Crank|last2=Nicolson|first2=P.|authorlink2=Phyllis Nicolson|s2cid=16676040}}</ref>
* [[George Dantzig]] publishes the [[simplex algorithm]] for [[linear programming]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Murty|first=Katta G.|title=Linear programming|publisher=Wiley|location=New York|year=1983|isbn=0-471-09725-X|mr=720547}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor=Cottle, Richard W|title=The Basic George B. Dantzig|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=2003|first=George B.|last=Dantzig}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=George B.|last1=Dantzig|first2=Mukund N.|last2=Thapa|year=1997|title=Linear programming 1: Introduction|publisher=Springer}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=George B.|last1=Dantzig|first2=Mukund N.|last2=Thapa|year=2003|title=Linear Programming 2: Theory and Extensions|publisher=Springer}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Michael J.|last=Todd|date=February 2002|title=The many facets of linear programming|journal=Mathematical Programming|volume=91|issue=3|doi=10.1007/s101070100261|pages=417–436|s2cid=6464735}}</ref><ref>''Computing in Science and Engineering'' '''2'''(1) (2000).</ref>