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The traveling salesman problem: a book review

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We review the recent book authored by David L. Applegate, Robert E. Bixby, Vasěk Chvátal and William J. Cook, The traveling salesman problem: a computational study, Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics. Princeton University Press 2007, Hardback price $45.00 / £26.95, 606pp, ISBN 978-0-691-12993-8.

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Letchford, A.N., Lodi, A. The traveling salesman problem: a book review. 4OR 5, 315–317 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10288-007-0058-0

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