Linear and Nonlinear Programming |  | Authors: Stephen G. Nash, Ariela Sofer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1047766
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 692
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0070460655
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.7
EAN: 9780070460652
ASIN: 0070460655
Publication Date: December 1, 1995
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Product Description
This text presents linear and nonlinear programming in an integrated setting and serves as a complete and unified introduction to applications, theory, and algorithms.
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 Bad presentation October 6, 2005
This book explains linear programming concepts using tableaus. Tableaus are obsolete. If you want to solve a linear program, you use Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, GNU Octave or some other computer program. If you want to understand the simplex algorithm, you should study the linear algebra approach, and not tableaus.
The book is badly organized, the font is ugly and the theory is spread over zillions of examples. Definitions are hard find. The algorithms are presented in a very cumbersome manner. The exercises are so many you don't bother even to read them. I would be nicer with a few, carefully selected, exercises.
The book would not be nice for an introductory course since everything is presented in such an obfusacted way. For a second course, it's not useful either, since instead of solid theory it contains only the mentioned zillions of examples.
nothing special January 30, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
the fact that none of the exercises have solutions is bothersome. i also had difficulty determining which ideas/equations have more emphasis than others. this book shouldn't be used as an introductory course due to its mediocre-at-best layout.
 There are better books... December 30, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found this book to be not so good for non linear programming. The notation is confusing and the discussion of subject itself is not organised. I prefer other books like the book by Bertsekas. I followed Bazaara's book for linear programming and hence I dont know about this book's linear programming.
clear December 5, 1999
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
In my opininon it is more clear than the other examples of this category. But a deficiency for this book is there is no solutions to the problems as exercises.
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