Introduction to Operations Research

By Frederick S. Hillier, Gerald S. Liebermann, Gerald J. Lieberman, et al.

Book Overview

It is now a third of a century since the 1967 publication of the first edition of the pathbreaking Introduction to Operations Research, when the field was still relatively new. A great deal has changed since then in regard to both developments in the field and evolving pedagogical demands of students. The seventh edition, in both regards, brings the book fully into the twenty-first century.This new package contains version 2.0 of the CD-ROM, in which all of the software has been updated.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072462396
• ISBN13: 9780072462395
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill College
• Weight: 4.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 8.3" x 2.0"

Customer Reviews

Extremelly good condition.

Congratulations ! Thank you for sending the book in an extremelly good condition (new), even tough the edition was a very old one - 2nd. Edition from 1980. Well done ! Reinaldo (Brasilia, Brazil)

A bright "Star" in the OR SKY!!!

Very good book! Can be used as a reference for practising engineers or as a Text-book in a class room at the Senior under-graduate class or in a Masters program. I used this book 25 years ago and now the 2001 edition is very well written and organized, addressing the 21st Century problems in OR. For Personal PC applications the CD is of great help for any one who want to succeed in Operations Research!

Ignore bad reviews of this book

I've been doing operations research for a number of years now, and I still use this book. I find it really incredible, in that it is the best-written book I have ever seen in this highly mathematical area, with no second! It introduces topics so well that I can skip right to the chapter covering the topic in which I am interested and catch the maximum continuous learning gradient from the global minimum to the global maximum, complete with a survey of and references to the latest research in the field. It's very up to date. The courseware makes it so that even an idiot could understand what is going on. If you can't learn operations research from this, you can't learn operations research. And if you want a quick refresher, an update, or a survey of field X, it accomplishes these equally well.

Two thumbs up

This book could be the best for some and could be also something difficult to be understood for another ones. If you have strong math background, you will appreciate it. If you are executive, with no math or engineering background, better look for something simpler.

the sixth edition =still the best book on the market

As a managment student at Tel Aviv university this book was excelent choice for me - it gave me the fundmental basics of solving linear problems. about the disk - there are out there many commercial programs but this one fits the needs of a student because its not too complex and yet it gives the student all the tools he needs