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- Elementary, excellently written textbook on linear programming for a very wide-ranging readership
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Universitext (UTX)
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"The authors’ guiding phrase is ‘what every theoretical computer scientist should know about linear programming’. … this book is easy and pleasant reading. A number of examples and illustrations are provided throughout the book. … The book is well written and well organized; I recommend it to undergraduate students and also to ‘pure mathematicians’ … . I recommend this book to computer scientists and mathematicians willing to learn the fundamentals of linear programming, and some of its many applications." (Fabio Mainardi, MAA Online, February, 2007)
"If you are looking for a concise and well-written overview of linear programming, then this may be the book for you. … The book is appropriate for nontheoretical computer scientists as well … . Matoušek and Gärtner’s Understanding and Using Linear Programming is a well-written introduction to the subject. … an excellent choice for anyone with a working knowledge of linear algebra who wants to learn more about the history and theory of linear programming, as it is written clearly and has a lively spirit." (Nancy C. Weida, SIAM Review, Vol. 49 (4), 2007)
"Focus in this interesting and recommendable textbook is on geometry and duality as well as on different solution algorithms for linear programming problems. The structure of the feasible set is explained and the relations between its vertices and basic feasible solutions are shown. … Both the ellipsoid and the interior point methods can be found in the textbook. The theory is complemented by many examples both from applications and relaxations of integer linear programming problems." (Stephan Dempe, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1133 (11), 2008)
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Book Title: Understanding and Using Linear Programming
Authors: Jiří Matoušek, Bernd Gärtner
Series Title: Universitext
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30717-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-30697-9Published: 05 October 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-30717-4Published: 04 July 2007
Series ISSN: 0172-5939
Series E-ISSN: 2191-6675
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations
Topics: Optimization, Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematics of Computing, Operations Research/Decision Theory