Books by "David A. Crowder"
3 books found
A collection of eyewitness accounts of notorious crimes and real-life investigations presents three chilling crimes that shocked America, including the Tomato Patch Murder, self-proclaimed Vampire Murderer Rod Ferrell, and Fatal Passion, about the bizarre trial of Thomas Capano for the murder of his beautiful young mistress.
"For residents of the mostly small towns where these camps were located, the arrival of enemy POWs engendered a range of emotions - first fear and apprehension, then curiosity, and finally, in many cases, a feeling of fondness for the men they had come to know and like."--BOOK JACKET.
The Traveling Salesman Problem
by David L. Applegate, Robert E. Bixby, Vašek Chvátal, William J. Cook
2011 · Princeton University Press
This book presents the latest findings on one of the most intensely investigated subjects in computational mathematics--the traveling salesman problem. It sounds simple enough: given a set of cities and the cost of travel between each pair of them, the problem challenges you to find the cheapest route by which to visit all the cities and return home to where you began. Though seemingly modest, this exercise has inspired studies by mathematicians, chemists, and physicists. Teachers use it in the classroom. It has practical applications in genetics, telecommunications, and neuroscience. The authors of this book are the same pioneers who for nearly two decades have led the investigation into the traveling salesman problem. They have derived solutions to almost eighty-six thousand cities, yet a general solution to the problem has yet to be discovered. Here they describe the method and computer code they used to solve a broad range of large-scale problems, and along the way they demonstrate the interplay of applied mathematics with increasingly powerful computing platforms. They also give the fascinating history of the problem--how it developed, and why it continues to intrigue us.