An Illustrated Guide to Linear Programming

The book is well written, but I was willing to see something more driven to programming

This is a great intro book for linear programming, It gives alot of great examples and ways to practice. It is a keeper.

The kindle edition doesn't display the tables and formulas large enough to see

Do you want learn linear programming concepts by the easy way? If this was the intent of the author, he was 100% successful.

Item as described, received as promised.

An Illustrated Guide to Linear Programming is a bare-bones primer on linear programming.The author brings up some examples, goes at a great length discussing them, invokes some historical trivia, and skips a lot of solving, only to give the answers. Be forewarned: An Illustrated Guide to Linear Programming only covers the graphical method of linear programming, skipping the simplex method.There are two camps of readers before the book: the tyros and the seasoned vets. The former will have absolutely no clue for most of the book because the exposition can vary between technical and layman's terms. The latter will find nothing new provided they have had a lot of experience with it. Undoubtedly, for the reader with a robotic mind, he will find the ever technical chapter, Mathematical Appendix and Summary of Application, gratifying. Throughout, An Illustrated Guide to Linear Programming is seriously lacking in pedagogy, worked-out examples, and exercises.If the reader is looking around for a thorough education in linear programming that covers nuances of graphical method, simplex method, and game theory, he will do himself a great justice by getting  Finite Mathematics (8th Edition)  and  Student Solutions Manual for Finite Mathematics  because these books combined together, pedagogically speaking, are unbelievably good and very detailed.A couple of points I want to take from An Illustrated Guide to Linear Programming:I've been using the program "Finite mathematics utility: simplex method tool" (google for it) for a long time whenever a linear programming problem has become a bit cumbersome to work with through a handheld calculator. Upon working on the interesting transportation program on page 20, I found out the program I was using couldn't handle the problem this large.My set-up goes like this:Minimize:z = 938x1 + 1030x2 + 824x3 + ... + 1590x13 + 716x14 + 854x15Subject to:x1 + ... + x5 <= 8x6 + ... + x10 <= 5x11 + ... + x15 <= 8x1 + x6 + x11 = 3......x5 + x10 + x15 = 3With:x1, ..., x15 >= 0So, afterwards, I discovered a program online called "Linear Program Solver" (a.k.a. LiPS and google for it too), so it ran the algorithm on the problem which came to a minimum of 16,864 ton-miles after 17 iterations. You won't find the worked out solution in the book at all; just some rudimentary, albeit unhelpful, ideas in arriving at the conclusion.All in all, I just don't know why I bothered buying An Illustrated Guide to Linear Programming; it was simply a waste of my money.

Very helpful to my grandson. He got an A on his test.

Must have for linear programming.

Still a great book