Introduction to Linear Optimization (Athena Scientific Series in Optimization and Neural Computation, 6) | 
| Authors: Dimitris Bertsimas, John N. Tsitsiklis
Publisher: Athena Scientific
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 30885
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 1886529191
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.72
EAN: 9781886529199
ASIN: 1886529191
Publication Date: February 1, 1997
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Product Description
This book provides a unified, insightful, and modern treatment of linear optimization, that is, linear programming, network flow problems, and discrete optimization. It includes classical topics as well as the state of the art, in both theory and practice.
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Par Excellence! November 14, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is THE best LP book I have come across. The topics are very clear and presented in the best possible manner. Introduces you to several basic and advanced LP topics, theorems and algorithms. The exercises at the end of each chapter test the students' understanding in an appropriate manner. A good number of examples are given to explain the theory in a better way. I would definitely recommend this book to a student interested in learning about optimization procedures and/or algorithm development.
Surely helps if you have taken a linear algebra course before. Some students who haven't had a linear algebra course find the math nomenclature formidable in the beginning.
Quite good July 31, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is impressive for theory, every thing you ever wanted to know or how to avoid some other is here. I teach to industrial engineering students, so i have to use other books for the application, but for the theory, everything is covered here, even more, in the book are several simple rules to avoid tipical problems of the simplex method or transportation problems, or integer forms. You can't call yourself a pro if you haven't read this book.
Nice intuition and good coverage January 1, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The best part of this book is the first half, where the foundations of linear programming are presented in a clear yet relatively rigorous fashion, accompanied by numerous intuitive geometrical explanations of the abstract general concepts. This approach, supplementing mathematics with graphical insights, works extremely well for this topic.
The quality goes down somewhat, perhaps neccessarily, in the latter half of the book as topics are presented less carefully, and in a somewhat rushed manner in order to cover all of the material the authors decided to include. Given that the fundamentals are covered so well, perhaps this is a fair trade.
The only real negative I can think of is that it's a small crime for professors to create their own publishing companies (Athena only publishes works by a small group of MIT professors) and then still charge outrageous amounts for the books. This would be completely unacceptable were it not for the fact that, unlike most self-published work, this book's production quality is on par with that of the large publishers.
 Too Verbose December 17, 2005
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Most part can be expressed in a more terse way and with math language. However, the book revolve around using very lengthy sentence to explain, which is not so helpful and clear as expressed with math. It can be condensed to half thickness.
A+++ September 23, 2005
0 out of 17 found this review helpful
Exactly as described, fast delivery. I will always try to choose amazon from now on.
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