tijms@econ.vu.nl (prof. dr. H.C. Tijms/20000) (12/13/90)
Exploring Operations Research and Statistics
In the Micro Lab
by Erwin Kalvelagen and Henk Tijms
Published by Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1990
price in USA $32.00 (in Europe, International Student
Edition, ISBN 013-296-5674, $30.95)
This lively book uses the interactive and graphics capabilities of the
micro for promoting applied mathematics and showing how useful it can be
to solve real-life problems. The book and software concentrate on basic
concepts and problems from operations research and statistics. Unique
computer graphics enable you to do the laboratory experiment like in the
physical sciences. The software contains the ten modules, Linear
Programming, Shortest Path Problem, Law of Large Numbers, Central Limit
Theorem, Kelly Betting, How to Gamble if You Must, Q-Q Plot, Statistical
Tables and Graphs, Integer Programming, and Traveling Salesman Problem.
See also ACM Computing Reviews, December 1990.