TY - BOOK AU - Hadley,G. TI - Linerar programming T2 - World Student Series U1 - 519.27 23rd PY - 1974/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Addison-Wesley KW - Linear Programming KW - Operations Research N1 - Includes index; Introduction -- Mathematical background -- Theory of the simplex method -- Detailed developmemt and computational aspects of the simplex method -- Further duscussion of the simplex method -- Resolution of the degeneracy problems -- The revised simplex method -- Duality theory and its ramifications -- Transportation problems -- Network flows -- Special topics -- Applications of linear programming to industrial problems -- Applications of linear programming to economic theory N2 - Only a little over a decade has passed since George Dantizig formulated the general linear programming problem and developed the simplex method for its solution. In this period, the growth of interest in, and the use of, linear programming has been remarkable. Rarely indeec has a new mathematical techniques found such a wide range of practical applications, and simultaneously received so through a theoretical development in a short period of time. ER -