56:270 Linear Programming Spring Semester 2000

Textbook

No book has been ordered at any bookstore, but the books below will be placed on reserve in the Engineering Library. Also, other selections of reading material will be made available to the students.

Most lectures will use Hypercard stacks with the overhead projector. These materials, together with the syllabus, homework assignments, sample exams, etc. are available to the students via this web site, usually in "pdf" format, requiring the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be freely downloaded from http://www.adobe.com.

Reference Book List

• Bazaraa, Mokhtar, John Jarvis, and Hanif Sherali. Linear Programming and Network Flows (Chapters 1-8). John Wiley & Sons, 1990.
• Martin, Kip. Large-Scale Linear and Integer Optimization.(Chapters 1-13). Kluwer Academic Publishers1999.
• Nash, Stephen and Ariela Sofer. Linear and Nonlinear Programming (Chapters 1--7). McGraw-Hill, 1996.
• Rardin, Ronald. Optimization in Operations Research, (Chapters 1-8). Prentice-Hall, 1998.
• Schrage, Linus. Optimization Modeling with LINDO (5th edition), Duxbury Press
• Schrage, Linus. Optimization Modeling with Lingo, LINDO Systems, Inc
• Winston, Operations Research: Applications & Algorithms (3rd edition), Chapters 1-6, 10), Duxbury Press, 1994.

Many of the above books will be put on reserve in the Engineering Library

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• Last modified: 20 January 2000