History of mathematical programming : a collection of personal reminiscences

The Origins of the Impossibility Theorem (K.J. Arrow). Mathematical Programming: Journals, Society, Recollections (M.L. Balinski). Linear Programming (G.B. Dantzig). A Glimpse of Heaven (J. Edmonds). Early Integer Programming (R.E. Gomory). Linear Programming at the National Bureau of Standards (A.J. Hoffman). Growth of Mathematical Programming in Japan (M. Iri). On the Origin of the Hungarian Method (H.W. Kuhn). Nonlinear Programming: A Historical Note (H.W. Kuhn). Old Stories (E.L. Lawler). Mathematical Programming Musings (O.L. Mangasarian). Mathematical Programming at Cornell and CORE: The Super Seventies (G.L. Nemhauser). A View of Nonlinear Optimization (M.J.D. Powell). The Origins of Fixed Point Methods (H.E. Scarf). The Development of Numerical Methods for Nonsmooth Optimization in the USSR (N.Z. Shor). Addresses.