Introductory book for operations research. But after you get what OR is about, you should learn Linear, Non linear and Integer programming separately.

This book tells how to solve a Linear programming problem but not why this way? I strongly recommend Bazaara 's Lp book to know the mechanism of Simplex method. But the discussion about various OR topics like transportaion, Assignment problems is excellent.

I got interested in OR reading this so I am sure all of you will like it.

I used since 1985

Rating: 5/5

The book of Taha has used it for but of 15 years in my courses of operations research has been of great utility in the career of Industrial Engineering, in the system of technological institutes in Mexico, personally I believe that professors Taha, Hillier and Liberman have been a very important support for the teaching of this part of the application of the mathematics, besides other, to all my recognition, the details if there are errors and if the contents are or non frontier of the science, is to each professor's approach that she/he teaches and she/he investigates, to make emphasis in some or others.

This book is simple with good examples

Rating: 5/5

I studied just the first 6 chapters in this book. From them i can say that this book is a good one. It is simple and presents the ideas in a step by step manner. The examples are for wide applications: industries, facility layout, aircrafts, carperntryshops, resturants... It is true that in some places such as in the transportation problem the steps were not clear. Moreover, not all the possible problems and tricks were explained clearly in this chapter. But i think this guy Hamdy Taha cared more about giving you a concept of how you can apply OR in a wide range of applications in a lot of places-more than you can ever think of. To be frank i found this book not so bad as those guys say in their reviews. This book when used with another book will be wonderful