2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Linear Programming and the Lagrangean Function
Author : Quirino Paris
Published in: An Economic Interpretation of Linear Programming
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
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In previous chapters we have discussed the relationship between primal and dual problems using only knowledge of economics, as in the theory of the competitive price-taking firm. It is important, however, to realize that duality relations are general features of reality (as interpreted by mathematics) and that the principal method for studying them is the Lagrangean method.