The Analyst's Bookshelf

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Book Reviews —Russell L. Ackoff, Scientific Method: Optimizing Applied Research Decisions, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1962, 464 pages, $10.25—reviewed by Walter L. Deemer; —James H. Batchelor, Operations Research, An Annotated Bibliography, Vol. 2, St. Louis University Press, St. Louis, Mo., 1962, 628 pages, $12.50—reviewed by Joseph F. McCloskey; —Ronald W. Clark, The Rise of the Boffins, Phoenix House Ltd., London, 1962, 268 pages, 25 shillings—reviewed by Walter L. Deemer; —A. Descloux, Delay Tables for Finite- and Infinite-Source Systems, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1962, 440 pages, $15.00—reviewed by Alfred G. Aswad; —M. Heister, Rentabilitatsanalyse von Investitionen (Rentability Analysis for Investment), Westdeutscher Verlag, Koln and Opladen, 1962, 151 pages, no price—reviewed by Fred Hanssmann; —Samuel Karlin, Mathematical Methods and Theory in Games, Programming, and Economics, Vol. I, Matrix Games, Programming, and Mathematical Economics, 433 pages, Vol. II, The Theory of Infinite Games, 383 pages, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Mass., 1959, $12.50 each—reviewed by Bruno Contini. Books Received (to be reviewed) Other Books Received Periodicals Theses —An Analysis of a Motor Freight Scheduling Problem, Robert Frederick Miller, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1961; —A Queuing Theory Approach to the Control of Hospital Inpatient Census, John P. Young, D.Eng., The Johns Hopkins University, June 1962, 206 pages