Editing Tobias Dantzig

'''Tobias Dantzig''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|æ|n|t|s|ɪ|ɡ}}; February 19, 1884 – August 9, 1956) was a Russian-American mathematician, the father of [[George Dantzig]], and the author of ''[[Number: The Language of Science|Number: The Language of Science (A critical survey written for the cultured non-mathematician)]]'' (1930) and ''Aspects of Science'' (New York, Macmillan, 1937).

==Biography==
Born in [[Šiauliai|Shavli]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Q6OdkTmpvE8C&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq= Profiles in Operations Research: Pioneers and Innovators]</ref><ref>[http://www.ganino.com/games/Science/science%20magazine%201940-1957/root/data/Science_1940-1957/pdf/1956_v124_n3225/p3225_0714.pdf T. Dantzig, Historian and Interpreter of Mathematics]</ref> (then [[Imperial Russia]], now [[Lithuania]]) into the family of Shmuel Dantzig (?-1940) and Guta Dimant (1863–1917), he grew up in [[Łódź]] and studied mathematics with [[Henri Poincaré]] in [[Paris]].<ref name="mmp">{{citation|contribution=George B. Dantzig|title=More Mathematical People|editor1-first=Donald J.|editor1-last=Albers|editor2-first=Gerald L.|editor2-last=Alexanderson|editor2-link=Gerald L. Alexanderson|editor3-first=Constance|editor3-last=Reid|publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich|year=1990|pages=60–79}}.</ref> His brother Jacob (1891-1942) was murdered by the Nazis during the [[Holocaust]]; he also had a brother Naftali (who lived in Moscow) and sister Emma.

Tobias married a fellow [[Sorbonne University]] student, Anja Ourisson, and the couple emigrated to the [[United States]] in 1910. He worked for a time as a lumberjack, road worker, and house painter in [[Oregon]], until returning to academia at the encouragement of [[Reed College]] mathematician Frank Griffin.<ref name="mmp"/> Dantzig received his Ph.D. in mathematics from [[Indiana University Bloomington]] in 1917, while working as a professor there.<ref name="mmp"/><ref>Hosch WL ''Tobias Dantzig'', Encyclopædia Britannica [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1555771/Tobias-Dantzig Online Academic Edition].</ref> He later taught at [[Johns Hopkins University]], [[Columbia University]], and the [[University of Maryland, College Park]].

Dantzig died in [[Los Angeles]] in 1956. He was the father of [[George Dantzig]], a key figure in the development of [[linear programming]].

==Partial list of publications==
*''[[Number: The Language of Science]]'' (1930);<ref>{{cite journal|author=Miller, G. A.|author-link=George Abram Miller|title=Review of ''Number: The Language of Science'' by Tobias Dantzig|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1931|volume=37|page=9|url=http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1931-37-01/S0002-9904-1931-05073-4/S0002-9904-1931-05073-4.pdf|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1931-05073-4|doi-access=free}}</ref> {{cite book|title=reprint of 4th edition|publisher=Penguin|year=2007|isbn=9780452288119|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pg_RKtlVlNMC}}
*''Aspects of Science'' (1937)
*''Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse'' (1954)
*''The Bequest of the Greeks'' (1955); {{cite book|title=Dover reprint|year=2006|isbn=9780486453477|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQvmDAAAQBAJ|last1=Dantzig|first1=Tobias|publisher=Courier Corporation}}

==References==
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==External links==
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