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Article: Linear Programming.
- Article from:
- IIE Transactions
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
- Author:
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With the large number of linear programming books already in print, one wonders what a new book can add to the existing resources. Therefore the criteria used to evaluate this book were whether it added to the existing literature, how easily it read, how easily could it be used, and how it integrated the concepts of interior point methods into the general discussion. Based on these criteria the book was a pleasant surprise.
The book consists of three distinct parts. Part I is a classical overview and development of linear programming (LP). The authors do not plow any new ground here and do not attempt anything that is pedagogically daring. However, their writing ...