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If you are interested in the Traveling Salesman problem, I recommend William J. Cook's excellent "In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman."
by jmount 8y ago
If you are interested in the Traveling Salesman problem, I recommend William J. Cook's excellent "In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman."
- stochastic_monk 8y agoOddly enough, he’s actually taught a course on Deep Learning and Discrete Optimization, with insights going both directions. His UWaterloo syllabus is [0]. He’s currently teaching it at Johns Hopkins; it seems like a ripe field of research. [0] https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~bico/co759/2018/index.html https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~bico/co759/2018/index.html
- quietbritishjim 8y agoThanks a lot for this recommendation. I bought it, read it, and found the heuristic algorithms in it could be applied to a problem I had to solve at work. So I'm very pleased you commented!