Operational Research - Hardcover

Makower, M.S. And E. Williamson

 
9780340059753: Operational Research

Synopsis

(OPERATIONAL RESEARCH is the application of scientific method to management decision making. It is being used to tackle a wide variety of problems, ranging from space- exploration to the control of supermarket stocks.
Many important problems are discussed, together with techniques of solving them that have been developed. There are numerical examples worked through in the text. Each chapter ends with further exercises, together with their solutions.
This book gives an introduction to a fascinating and increasingly topical subject. Those with a slight taste for numbers, and no more than a rusty recollection of school mathematics, will follow with ease the ideas presented)

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