Authors Wayne Winston and Munirpallam Venkataramanan emphasize model-formulation and model-building skills as well as interpretation of computer software output. Focusing on deterministic models, this book is designed for the first half of an operations research sequence. A subset of Winston’s best-selling OPERATIONS RESEARCH, INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING offers self-contained chapters that make it flexible enough for one- or two-semester courses ranging… More >>
Introduction to Mathematical Programming: Applications and Algorithms, Volume 1
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#1 by MathMajor on January 28, 2010 - 4:09 am
Package arrived in orderly fashion. Everything that was suppose to be included was shipped. ie. the Book and the solution manual.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Patrick J. Cockcroft on January 28, 2010 - 5:42 am
terrible book. lots of mistakes in the problems. some explanations are very confusing.
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by Emil on January 28, 2010 - 6:51 am
This is one of the worst textbooks I’ve ever had. It contains good examples, but terribly explained.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Schadstoffsöldner on January 28, 2010 - 8:48 am
There are textbooks where one can really see that effort not only went into minimizing mistakes but also in narrowing the barrier of learning as much as possible (i.e., simplifying without losing mathematical rigor). This text doesn’t master either aspect.
Otherwise the book is fairly mediocre. Unfortunately, some obsolete concepts (such as the M method as well as some other algorithms) are covered, but critical concepts (Simplex _fundamentals_) are either ignored or explained poorly (especially the section on direction of unboundedness was confusing, left out critical information, and didn’t connect well to the later Simplex chapters).
Rating: 3 / 5
#5 by R. Palone Aldarvis on January 28, 2010 - 9:38 am
The book is very good, brings loads of examples and exercises. It has also a sample version of LINGO, which is quite useful for Operational Researchers.
The only hint I give is the following: if you have already the blue book OPERATIONS RESEARCH by the same author, forget about this one. The content is basically the same, except from two chapters.
Rating: 4 / 5