This books is dedicated with love to my wife, Sheri, to my mother, to the memory of my father and to all my partners at Starbucks, especially Mary Ciatrin Mahoney, Aaron David Good...
假设一名旅行商打算拜访一张城市列表中的所有城市,每座城市只去一次,最后回到出发地。要怎么走才能让路线最短呢?这就是旅行商问题,乍一听很简单,在应用数学界却是一道研究极其热烈的难题,时至今日仍无人能解。本书中,William J. Cook将带领读者踏上一场数学之旅,跟随旅行商的脚步,从19世纪初爱尔兰数学家W. R. Hamilton最初定义该问题开始,一路...