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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

  1. L.C. Thomas, Games, Theory and Application, Wiley, Chichester (1984).
  2. M.S. Bazaran, J.J. Harvis and H.D. Shara'i, Linear Programming and Network Flows, Wiley (1988).
  3. 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.

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Last modified: 08 October 2008