Useful as both a text and a reference, this book provides help to research analysts, applied mathematicians, economists, and statisticians. Gass (professor emeritus, business, University of Maryland) explores theoretical and computational methods including the general linear programming problem, the simplex computational procedure and the revised simplex method, and parametric linear programming. Chapter exercises are included. This is a slightly corrected republication of the fifth edition published by boyd & fraser publishing company, Danvers, Massachusetts, 1995. The book was originally published in 1985 by McGraw-Hill, New York. The McGraw-Hill edition is cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed. . Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
