It took them some time to notice. But his results are actually very well-known today. Here's a more thorough account of the story. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.

It took them some time to notice. But his results are actually very well-known today. Here's a more thorough account of the story. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2326-1951.1980.tb01345.x/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.2326-1951.1980.... Also. They guy invented an algorithm for linear programming. That is _not_ the travelling salesman problem. For that, solutions need to be integer.