"this book. Introduction to Mathematical Programming, includes Part 1 (Introduction) with slight alterations, as well as Part 2 (Linear Programming), Part 3 (Mathematical Programming), and the first four appendices from the fifth edition. Because of its relevance for a course on deterministic models in operations research, the deterministic portion of Chap. 18 of Introduction to Operations Research (Inventory Theory) also has been included here as Chap. 15."--Preface