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Introduction

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This book is mostly about a subject called Linear Programming. Before defining what we mean, in general, by a linear programming problem, let us describe a few practical real-world problems that serve to motivate and at least vaguely to define this subject.

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  1. Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

    Robert J. Vanderbei

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Vanderbei, R.J. (2014). Introduction. In: Linear Programming. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 196. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7630-6_1

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