Review of "Linear Programming: An Elementary Introduction by Gerald E. Thompson", The Macmillan Company, 1971

linear programming and contains no chapter on integer, quadratic, or other nonlinear programming topics. The book is quite adequate for graduate students attending an intermediate to advanced LP course. A good mix of theoretical and practical exercises can be found at the end of each chapter (including the appendix) and some applications of relatively large size are also presented. This should perhaps have been an incentive for the authors to include a chapter on computer and software considerations linked with large-scale linear programs; it would be very desirable indeed that a textbook on linear programming appearing this late in the game contain more information on 'open questions' and recent developments of the simplex method, concerning numerical stability or sparseness, for instance. By Claude-Alain Burdet, Carnegie-Mellon University.