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In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman

In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman

Mathematics at the Limits of Computation

by William J. Cook
Hardback
Publication Date: 27/12/2011

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What is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman problem is one of the most intensely studied puzzles in applied mathematics--and it has defied solution to this day. In this book, William Cook takes readers on a mathematical excursion, picking up the salesman's trail in the 1800s when Irish mathematician W. R. Hamilton first defined the problem, and venturing to the furthest limits of today's state-of-the-art attempts to solve it. He also explores its many important applications, from genome sequencing and designing computer processors to arranging music and hunting for planets. In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman travels to the very threshold of our understanding about the nature of complexity, and challenges you yourself to discover the solution to this captivating mathematical problem.
ISBN:
9780691152707
9780691152707
Category:
Popular mathematics
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
27-12-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x21mm
Weight:
0.57kg

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