Suggested readings

Readings will be posted soon.

Printed material

The course material is constantly being updated from a variety of books, journal articles, newspaper articles, contributions from others to this wiki, and the author's own experiences with data analysis and consulting.

The following printed materials have influenced the course content. In alphabetical order:

Author(s)	Title	Google search results	Amazon	Other links
Edgar, Himmelblau, and Lasdon	Optimization of Chemical Processes, McGraw-Hill, 2001	Google	Amazon
Rardin	Optimization in Operations Research, Prentice-Hall, 1998	Google	Amazon
Reklaitis, Ravindran, and Ragsdell	Engineering Optimization; Methods and Applications, Wiley, 1983	Google		Publisher site
Rao	Engineering Optimization, Theory and Practice, 3rd ed., Wiley, 1996	Google	Amazon
Taha	Operations Research: An Introduction, 9th ed., Prentice-Hill, 2010	Google	Amazon
Williams	Model Building in Mathematical Programming, 5th ed., Wiley, 2013	Google	Amazon
Winston	Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms, Duxbury Press, 2003	Google	Amazon

Online book

Some recommended free online books:

• http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/LPbook/
• http://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/

Online courses

There are a wide variety of online courses that cover topics similar to this course. May I suggest you consider looking at these if you are looking for more exposure to the course material:

• Linear and Discrete Optimization
• Linear and Integer Programming