MA30087/50087: Optimisation methods of operational research.

Contents of this webpage

Lecture notes
Exercises
Books
Past papers
M.Sc. students additional assessment
Typos we found in lectures

Lecture notes

If you spot any mistakes in my lecture notes please email them to me at a.kyprianou@bath.ac.uk or let me know in lectures. Please see here for typos we found in lectures. Note that updated means that errors found in previous part of the text have also been corrected. That means that the document is not just the previous document with additional material added on.

Lecture notes in:

PDF format.

PS format.

DVI format.

Exercises

Click here for the complete list of exercises. Solutions will follow one week in arrears (links become active accordingly). Please hand in solution in the folder on my door (1W 3.13) or hand in on thursday lecture.

Questions 1--4. Week 1 solutions (link active)
Questions 5--7. Week 2 solutions (link active)
Questions 8--10. Week 3 solutions (link active)
Questions 11--14. Week 4 solutions (link active)
Questions 15--18. Week 5 solutions (link active)
Questions 19--21. Week 6solutions (link active)
Questions 22--24. Week 7 solutions (link active)
Questions 25--27. Week 8 solutions (link active)
Questions 28--30. Week 9 solutions (link active)

Books

Here are some books you might consider trying to get hold of via the library (but not necessarily buy). The first one is the recommended text.

Elementary Linear Programming with Applications (Hardcover) by Bernard Kolman (Editor), Robert Edward Beck (Editor)
Understanding and Using Linear Programming Series: Universitext J. Matoušek, B. Gärtner, Springer (2007).
M.S. Bazaran, J.J., Harvis and H.D. Shara'i, Linear Programming and Network Flows, Wiley (2005), ISBN: 0-471-48599-3.
B.D. Bunday, Basic Optimization Methods, Hodder Arnold (1984).
V. Chvatal, Linear Programming, Freeman (1983), Chapters 1-5, 15.
D. G. Luenberger, Linear and Nonlinear Programming, Addison-Wesley (1984), Chapters 2-4.
F. S. Hillier, G. J. Lieberman, Introduction to Operations Research. McGraw-Hill (2001), 7th Edition. Chapters 1-6, 14.
A. M. Glicksman, An Introduction to Linear Programming and the Theory of Games. Dover.

As well as having the library at your disposal, you also have the internet at your disposal! I strongly encourage you to spend some time browsing the internet for lecture notes from other universities which I would expect to cover similar material.