Linear Programming and Its Applications

by Horst A. Eiselt and Carl-Louis Sandblom

Book Overview

Based on earlier work by a variety of authors in the 1930s and 1940s, the simplex method for solving linear programming problems was developed in 1947 by the American mathematician George B. Dantzig. Helped by the computer revolution, it has been described by some as the overwhelmingly most significant mathematical development of the last century. Owing to the simplex method, linear programming (or linear optimization, as some would have it) is pervasive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642092845
• ISBN13: 9783642092848
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"