Authors:David L. Applegate, Robert E. Bixby, Vasek Chvatal
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: series, applied, mathematics, princeton, study, salesman, problem, computational, traveling
Number of Pages: 606
Published: 2007-01-15
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 0691129932
ISBN-13: 9780691129938

This book presents the latest findings on one of the most intensely investigated subjects in computational mathematics--the traveling salesman problem. It sounds simple enough: given a set of cities and the cost of travel between each pair of them, the problem challenges you to find the cheapest route by which to visit all the cities and return home to where you began. Though seemingly modest, this exercise has inspired studies by mathematicians, chemists, and physicists. Teachers use it in the classroom. It has practical applications in genetics, telecommunications, and neuroscience.The autho