Applied Mathematical Programming
by Bradley, Hax, and Magnanti (Addison-Wesley, 1977)¶
This book is a reference book for 15.053, Optimization Methods in
Business Analytics, taught at MIT.
To make the book available online, most chapters have been re-typeset.
Chapters 6, 7 and 10 were not, but are still available (as direct scans of the original chapters).
Downloads of the book and its chapters¶
- Entire Book minus Chapters 6, 7 and 10
- Chapter 1. Mathematical Programming: An Overview
- Chapter 2. Solving Linear Programs
- Chapter 3. Sensitivity Analysis
- Chapter 4. Duality in Linear Programming
- Chapter 5. Mathematical Programming in Practice
- Chapter 6 (scanned). Integration of Strategic and Tactical Planning in the Aluminum Industry
- Chapter 7 (scanned). Planning the Mission and Composition of the U.S. Merchant Marine Fleet
- Chapter 8. Network Models
- Chapter 9. Integer Programming
- Chapter 10 (scanned). Design of a Naval Tender Job Shop
- Chapter 11. Dynamic Programming
- Chapter 12. Large-Scale Systems
- Chapter 13. Nonlinear Programming
- Chapter 14. A System for Bank Portfolio Planning
- Appendix A. Vectors and Matrices
- Appendix B. Linear Programming in Matrix Form
- Appendix C. A Labeling Algorithm for the Max Flow Problem
Some Excel exercises.¶
Remark: These exercises (and Excel) were developed after the book was published.
- Exercise 3.1
- Exercise 3.2
- Exercise 3.7
- Exercise 3.9
- Exercise 3.10
- Exercise 3.11
- Exercise 3.12
- Exercise 3.14
- Exercise 3.15
- Exercise 3.16
- Exercise 3.18
- Exercise 3.19
- Exercise 3.25
- Exercise 3.28
Other spreadsheets¶
- Section 1.3. Blast furnace example
- Section 1.3. Portfolio selection example
- Section 1.4. Glass manufacturing example
- Section 2.3. A simple example
- Figure 2.4. Pivoting
- Figure 2.6. Pivoting.
- Section 3.1. Tableaus
- Section 3.6. Glasses (again)
- Section 3.6. Sensitivity tableaus
- Section 4.2. Primal-Dual
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