And at their heart lay equation solving…

Wewf, taking an intensive language class while also doing mathy research is tiring.

I’ve starting to read up on how to apply linear programming style techniques to combinatorial optimization (this book) by a fellow named schrijver does a lovely job of talking about when they can be used to exactly solve problems, and I’m also perusing this book by vijay vazirani about what are similar techniques but applied to approximating intractable problems.

It’s already given me some nifty ideas, but first FINISHING my other work!