I actually have five LP textbooks to recommend. I was the founding Series Editor for Springer's International Series in Operations Research and Management Science from 1993 to 2013. As a textbook author myself, I gave extra emphasis to recruiting some of the most outstanding scholars and expositors in our field to develop textbooks for this series. I really hit the jackpot for LP or LP and NLP textbooks. I think that all of the following textbooks in my former series are outstanding.
(1) Linear Programming: Foundations and Extensions by Robert Vanderbei (Princeton), 4th edition, 2013. This very popular textbook has been used by over 10,000 students over its lifetime.
(2) Linear and Nonlinear Programming by David Luenberger and Yinyu Ye (both at Stanford), 4th edition, 2013. This is another very popular textbook that is used by several hundred students per year. David Luenberger is a former winner of the INFORMS Expository Writing Award and Yinyu Ye was awarded the von Neumann Theory Prize.
(3) Linear Programming and Generalizations by Eric Denardo (Yale), 2011. This is another in a series of outstanding books written by Eric Denardo. One unique feature is that it strongly links LP to economic reasoning.
(4) Optimization for Decision Making: Linear and Nonlinear Models by Katta Murty (University of Michigan), 2009. Katta Murty is well known as a gifted textbook author.
(5) Linear and Nonlinear Optimization by Richard Cottle (Stanford) and Mukund Thapa (a Stanford graduate), 2017. I anticipate that this will become a very popular textbook. Both co-authors were students of George Dantzig and Mukund Thapa was a co-author with George Dantzig of two textbooks. Richard Cottle is a superb expositor who won the Lanchester Prize as the lead author of another textbook.
For anybody seeking either a LP textbook or a LP and NLP textbook, I would suggest obtaining examination copies of some of the above books. I think you'll then find one that fits your needs.
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Frederick Hillier
Professor of OR, Emeritus
Stanford University (Emeritus)
Redmond WA
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-15-2018 17:00
From: Betty Love
Subject: Recommendations for Linear Programming textbook
I'm looking for suggestions for a textbook for a Linear Programming course that is at about the same level as the Bazaraa and Jarvis Linear Programming and Network Flows book. I don't mind using it again, but thought I'd see what others recommend.
Thanks!
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Betty Love
University of Nebraska - Omaha
Omaha NE
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