On reserve
in the Engineering Library:
- F. S. Roberts, Applied Combinatorics, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs,
N.J., 1984.
- F. S. Roberts, Discrete mathematical models, with applications to
social, biological, and environmental problems, Prentice-Hall, Englewood
Cliffs, N.J., 1976.
- D. P. Gaver and G. L. Thompson, Programming and probability
models in operations research, Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., 1973.
-
F. S. Hillier and G. J. Lieberman, Introduction to operations
research, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1995.
- D. E. Knuth, The Stanford GraphBase: A Platform for
Combinatorial
Computing, Addison-Wesley, New York, 1993
-
M. M. Meerschaert, Mathematical Modeling, Academic Press, San Diego,
1993.
- S. M. Ross, A Course in Simulation, Macmillan Publishing
Company, New York, 1990.
Some journals with good articles:
- UMAP Journal (the Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics and Its
Applications), in Odegaard Library. In particular one issue each year is
devoted to Outstanding Entries in the annual
Mathematical Contest in
Modeling for undergraduates. These are modeling problems solved and
written up by teams of undergraduates, similar to the course project.
- SIAM News (Math Library)
has articles with overviews of interesting mathemtical problems, written for
a fairly general audience.
- SIAM Review (Math Library) See the sections called
"Case Studies" and "Classroom Notes" in particular. Other
SIAM Journals may also be
useful, e.g. the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, though most
of these journals contain more detailed research papers.
- Interfaces (Business School Library) Contains many articles
about operations research applied to various businesses, mostly at the level
of describing the modeling without too many mathematical details.