From the Preface. The preparation of this book started in 2004, when George B. Dantzig and I, following a long-standing invitation by Fred Hillier to contribute a volume to his International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, decided finally to go ahead with editing a volume...

The Linear Programming Problem -- Solving Simple Linear Programs -- The Simplex Method -- Interior-Point Methods -- Duality -- Equivalent Formulations -- Price Mechanism and Sensitivity Analysis -- Transportation and Assignment Problem -- Network Flow Theory.