The Analysts' Bookshelf

Book Reviews

—C. West Churchman, Russell L. Ackoff, and E. Leonard Arnoff, Introduction to Operations Research, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1957, 645 pages, $12.00—reviewed by John G. Brainerd and Ralph M. Showers;

—Franklin A. Lindsay, New Techniques for Management Decision Making, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1958, 173 pages, $15.00—reviewed by Robert S. Weinberg;

—Kenneth J. Arrow, Samuel Karlin, and Herbert Scarf, Studies in the Mathematical Theory of Inventory and Production, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1958, 340 pages, $8.75—reviewed by Thomas L. Saaty;

—Kenneth J. Arrow, Leonid Hurwicz, and Hirofumi Uzawa, Studies in Linear and Non-Linear Programming, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 1958, 229 pages, $7.50—reviewed by C. E. Lemke;

—Saul I. Gass, Linear Programming: Methods and Applications, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1958, 223 pages, $6.50—reviewed by Carl N. Klahr;

—Earl O. Heady and Wilfred Candler, Linear Programming Methods, Iowa State College Press, Ames, Iowa, 1958, 597 pages, $5.95—reviewed by Paul H. Randolph;

—Robert Dorfman, Paul A. Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow, Linear Programming and Economic Analysis, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1958, 527 pages, $10.00—reviewed by Harvey M. Wagner;

—S. Vajda, Readings in Linear Programming, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1958, 99 pages, $3.00—reviewed by Robert B. Fetter;

—Friedrich Wendt, Kaffee in Gemeinsamen Markt, Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv, Hamburg, Germany, 1958, 68 pages—reviewed by Fred Hanssmann;

—Vera Riley and Saul I. Gass, Linear Programming and Related Techniques: A Comprehensive Bibliography on Linear, Nonlinear, and Dynamic Programming, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1958, 613 pages, $6.00—reviewed by Jack B. Dennis;

—F. Pollaczek, Problèmes Stochastiques, Posés par le Phénomène de Formation d'une Queue d'Attente a un Guichet et par des Phénomènes Apparentes, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1957, 122 pages, 2,500 fr—reviewed by A. R. Bloemena;

—Joint IBM-NYU Symposium on Digital Computing in the Aircraft Industry, January 31–February 1, 1957, IBM-NYU Symposium, New York, 1958, 399 pages, $8.00—reviewed by William D. Jones;

—Burnard H. Sord and Glenn A. Welsch, Business Budgeting, Controllership Foundation, New York, 1958, 367 pages, $12.50—reviewed by Robert S. Weinberg;

—Frederick F. Stephan and Philip J. McCarthy, Sampling Opinions, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1958, 451 pages, $12.00—reviewed by Robert S. Weinsberg;

—Robert N. Lehrer, Work Simplification: Creative Thinking about Work Problems, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1957, 394 pages, $9.25—reviewed by Robert H. Roy;

—Paul Wasserman with Fred S. Silander, Decision-Making: An Annotated Bibliography, Graduate School of Business and Public Administration, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1958, 111 pages, $3.50—reviewed by J. Sayer Minas.

The Periodicals

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