| Article ID: | iaor20101465 |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 25 |
| End Page Number: | 35 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2010 |
| Journal: | Central European Journal of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Hegeds Csaba J |
After having been appeared, Egerváry was perhaps the first who responded to Purcell's paper in 1957. Later in a posthumous paper he returned to the method in 1960, showing that it could be derived from his rank reduction procedure. We review here Purcell's method in connection with Egerváry's activity and also, we give a short survey on subsequent developments.