| Article ID: | iaor2012363 |
| Volume: | 75 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 101 |
| End Page Number: | 104 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2012 |
| Journal: | Mathematical Methods of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Bartl David |
| Keywords: | optimization |
We present a very short algebraic proof of a generalisation of the Farkas Lemma: we set it in a vector space of finite or infinite dimension over a linearly ordered (possibly skew) field; the non‐positivity of a finite homogeneous system of linear inequalities implies the non‐positivity of a linear mapping whose image space is another linearly ordered vector space. In conclusion, we briefly discuss other algebraic proofs of the result, its special cases and related results.