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Books 799

likely to appeal to any one individual, but the papers in Part I and in Part IV are certainly of general interest to the operations-research profession, and it is a real service to have them collected in a single volume. The insights acquired by brows- ing in Parts II and III may be regarded as bonuses for the operations analyst in search of wider horizons.

WILLIAM F. WHITMORE

Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.

ROBERT L. GRAVES and PHILIP WOLFE (editors), Recent Advances in Mathematical Programming, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New

York, N. Y., 1963, 359 pages, $11.95

T HIS book contains twenty-three of the forty-three papers presented in Chicago at the Fourth Symposium on Mathematical Programming of June 18-22, 1962.

Included among them are four survey papers, Combinatorial Theory Underlying Linear Programs by A. W. TUCKER, Methods of Nonlinear Programming by PHILIP

WOLFE, Linear Programming under Uncertainty by ALBERT MADANSKY, and Flows in Networks by D. R. FULKERSON. Abstracts of the twenty remaining papers are given.

The papers present many of the latest thoughts in mathematical programming, and their content amply justifies the title of the volume. In particular, one should note the work on large systems described in the papers by DANTZIG, BEALE, ABADIE

AND WILLIAMS, and ROSEN. Coupled with previous and current work on decompo- sition and partitioning, these papers reveal the remarkable advances that have been made in this difficult problem area. As it had been out of print, the editors have wisely included, as a substitute for the paper given by GOMORY at the conference, his basic paper An Algorithm for Integer Solutions to Linear Programs, originally published as Princeton-IBM Mathematics Research Project Technical Report Number 1, November 17, 1958.

The editors are to be congratulated for putting together a fine volume that has already proved to be a valuable source document.

SAUL I. GASS

IBM Corporation

Books Received

RUTH F. BLAISDELL AND OTHERS, Sources of Information in Transportation, The Transportation Center, Northwestern University, 1818 Hinman Ave., Evans- ton, Illinois 60204, 1964, 272 pages, $5.00 (paper).

CHARLES P. BONINI, ROBERT K. JAEDICKE, AND HARVEY M. WAGNER (editors),

Management Controls: New Directions in Basic Research, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, N. Y., 1964, 361 pages, $8.50. A collection of 17 papers from a seminar on Basic Research in Management Controls at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Committee on Utilization of Scientific and Engineering Manpower, Toward Better Utilization of Scientific and Engineering Talent: A Program for Action, Publica- tion No. 1191, Printing and Publishing Office, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave., Washington, D. C., 1964, 163 pages, no price (paper).

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800 The Analyst's Bookshelf

Report of the National Academy of Sciences Committee, chaired by JAMES R. KILLIAN, JR., that was requested in 1961 by PRESIDENT KENNEDY to study the utilization of scientific and engineering manpower in the United States.

PAUL H. COOTNER (editor), The Random Character of Stock Market Prices, The M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1964, 522 pages, $15.00. An anthology of 21 papers extending from BACHELIER'S pioneer paper of 1900 up to 1963; the editor has contributed an introduction to each of the four parts into which the book is divided.

SEYMOUR J. DEITCHMAN, Limited War and American Defense Policy, The M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1964, 288 pages, $10.00.

G. DESBAZEILLE, Exercices et problems de recherche operationnelle, Dunod, Paris, France, 1964, 360 pages, 48 francs (paper).

GIUSEPPE M. FERRERO DI ROCCAFERRERA, Operations Research Models for Business and Research, South-Western Publishing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1964, 1122 pages, $18.00.

M. DRESHER, L. S. SHAPLEY, AND A. W. TUCKER (editors), Advances in Game Theory, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1964, 692 pages, $8.50. A collection of 29 papers "conceived as a one-volume cross section of current activity in the theory of games."

LIANG-TSENG FAN AND CHIU-SEN WANG. The Discrete Maximum Principle: A Study of Multistage Systems Optimization, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y., 1964, 168 pages, $5.75.

R. FORTET, J. ABADIE, J. BERNADAT, M. COURTILLOT, J.-M. GAUTHIER, F. GE- NUYS, P. HUARD, AND G. MATTHYS, Mathematique des Programmes Econo- miques, Dunod, Paris, France, 1964, 145 pages, 19 francs (paper). A set of 12 seminar discussions that took place in 1961 under the sponsorship of the Asso- ciation Frangaise de Calcul et de Traitement de l'Information (AFCALTI) and the Soci6t6 Frangaise de Recherche Op6rationnelle (SoFRO); the papers deal with various matters related to the simplex method. They are published here as No. 1 in a new series Monographies de Recherche Operationnelle spon- sored by the Association Frangaise d'Informatique et de Recherche Op6ra- tionnelle (AFIRO), the new society that was formed recently by the union of AFCALTI and SoFRO.

WERNER Z. HIRSCH, Elements of Regional Accounts, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Md., 1964, 239 pages, $6.00. Nine papers presented at a confer- ence sponsored by Resources for the Future, Inc.

A. KAUFMANN AND G. DESBAZEILLE, La methode du chemin critique, application aux programmes de production et d'4tudes de la methode P. E. R. T. et de ses variantes, Dunod, Paris, France, 1964, 180 pages, 24 francs (paper).

J. LESOURNE, Le calcul economique, Dunod, Paris, France, 1964, 260 pages, 29 francs.

SAMUEL J. MANTEL, JR., Cases in Managerial Decisions, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Engle- wood Cliffs, N. J., 1964, 207 pages, $4.95. Twenty cases dealing with the relations between economic theory and business decisions.

Maritime Cargo Transportation Conference, Inland and Maritime Transportation of Unitized Cargo: A Comparative Economic Analysis of Break-Bulk and Unit

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Books 801

Load Systems for Maritime General Cargo from Shipper to Consignee, Publica- tion 1135, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C., 20418, 1963, 100 pages, $4.00 (paper).

Maritime Cargo Transportation Conference, San Francisco Port Study: Volume 1, Description and Analysis of Maritime Cargo Operations in a U. S. Port, Publica- tion 1140A, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. 20418, 1964, 156 pages, $12.00 (price includes Vol. 2 published in September 1964).

RICHARD H. MYERS, KAM L. WONG, AND HAROLD M. GORDY (editors), Reliability Engineering for Electronic Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y., 1964, 368 pages, $12.50.

National Science Foundation, Current Projects on Economic and Social Implications of Science and Technology: 1963, NSF 64-10, Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1964, 166 pages, $0.50 (paper). A descriptive, classified, and indexed listing of 356 research projects under way in 1963; it records the results of the fifth annual NSF survey of projects on the economic and social implications of science and technology.

National Science Foundation, Research and Development in Industry 1961, NSF 64-9, Superintendent of Documents, US Government Printing Office, Wash- ington, D. C. 20402, 1964, 135 pages, 65 cents (paper).

DAVID W. PACKER, Resource Acquisition in Corporate Growth, The M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1964, 128 pages, $6.00.

J. D. RADFORD AND D. B. RICHARDSON, The Management of Production, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y., 1964, 287 pages, $7.00.

EDWARD B. ROBERTS, The Dynamics of Research and Development, Harper & Row, New York, N. Y., 1964, 375 pages, $10.95.

H. W. SINGER, International Development: Growth and Change, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, N. Y., 1964, 309 pages, $7.50.

RAYMOND VILLERS, Research and Development: Planning and Control, Financial Executives Research Foundation, Inc., 50 West 44th St., New York 36, N. Y., 1964, 199 pages, $10.50. The report of a study "undertaken in order to deter- mine and outline the essential ingredients of an effective system of planning and control of research and development operations."

R. A. WARD, Operational Research in Local Government, Royal Institute of Public Administration and George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 24 Park Crescent, London Wf. 1, England, 1964, 108 pages, 12 shillings 6 pence (paper).

PERIODICALS

A New Journal International Journal of Computer Mathematics

The first issue (May 1964) of the new International Journal of Computer Mathe- matics has appeared, with the following contents:

A. I. MoRoz, "A Model for Discrete-Variable Linear Programming" R. P. HARVEY, "The Decomposition Principle for Linear Programs"

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