The book remains preeminent even after 37 years. The extensive use of international student editions and translations into 15 other languages has contributed to spreading the field around the world. Many leaders in the field and many current instructors first learned about the field via an edition of this book.
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Over 37 years, successive editions of this book have introduced more than one-half million students to the field and have attracted many people to enter the field for academic activity and professional practice. Then, just after the publication of the eighth edition, it was especially gratifying to be the recipient of the prestigious 2004 INFORMS Expository Writing Award for this book, including receiving the following citation: It was a particular pleasure to have the field’s leading professional society, the international Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), award the 6th edition honorable mention for the 1995 INFORMS Lanchester Prize (the prize awarded for the year’s most outstanding English-language publication of any kind in the field of operations research). The enthusiastic response to our first ten editions has been most gratifying. Neither of us could have imagined that this extensive worldwide demand would continue at such a high level for such an extended period of time. Following publication, it was unclear how well this particular goal was met, but what did become clear was that the demand for the book was far larger than either of us had anticipated. When Jerry Lieberman and I started working on the first edition of this book, our goal was to develop a pathbreaking textbook that would help establish the future direction of education in what was then the emerging field of operations research.
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