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Mathematics of Operational Research
This is a home page for a course of 24 lectures to Cambridge M.Phil in
Statistics and Part III students.
Lecture Notes
These are notes for the 2007 course. I may change these as
lectures progress.
The files are in Adobe pdf format.
Lectures
1-24 in side-by-side A5 format
Lectures
1-24 in large A4 format
Index
Example sheet 1, Example sheet 2, Example sheet 3
Past
Exams
2008,
2007,
2006, 2005,
2004,
2003,
2002,
2001
Recommended
Books
- L.C. Thomas, Games,
Theory and Application, Wiley, Chichester (1984).
- M.S.
Bazaran, J.J. Harvis and H.D. Shara'i, Linear
Programming and Network Flows, Wiley (1988).
- Bertsimas
and J.N. Tsitsiklis, Introduction to Linear
Optimization, Athena Scientific (1997).
A biography of John
Nash.
Simple2
A LP solver. Simple2x is a small program written to run under Windows
and designed to assist students to learn the simplex algorithm. It
takes the hard labour out of performing pivot operations and it may be
configured to prompt the choice of pivot elements.
Notice
to external persons accessing this page
Last
modified: 08 October 2008