Alcuin's transportation problems and integer programming:

Abstract: "The need to solve transportation problems was and still is one of the driving forces behind the development of the mathematical disciplines of graph theory, optimization, and operations research. Transportation problems seem to occur for the first time in the literature in the form o...

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Hauptverfasser: Borndörfer, Ralf 1967- (VerfasserIn), Grötschel, Martin 1948- (VerfasserIn), Löbel, Andreas 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1995
Schriftenreihe:Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik <Berlin>: Preprint SC 1995,27
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract: "The need to solve transportation problems was and still is one of the driving forces behind the development of the mathematical disciplines of graph theory, optimization, and operations research. Transportation problems seem to occur for the first time in the literature in the form of the four 'River Crossing Problems' in the book Propositiones ad acuendos iuvenes. The Propositiones -- the oldest collection of mathematical problems written in Latin -- date back to the 8th century A.D. and are attributed to Alcuin of York, one of the leading scholars of his time, a royal advisor to Charlemagne at his Frankish court. Alcuin's river crossing problems had no impact on the development of mathematics. However, they already display all the characteristics of today's large-scale real transportation problems. From our point of view, they could have been the starting point of combinatorics, optimization, and operations research. We show the potential of Alcuin's problems in this respect by investigating his problem 18 about a wolf, a goat and a bunch of cabbages with current mathematical methods. This way, we also provide the reader with a leisurely introduction into the modern theory of integer programming."
Beschreibung:28 S. graph. Darst.

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