Book reviews

Higle, J. L. and Sen, S. (eds.), Stochastic Decomposition. A Statistical Method for Large Scale Stochastic Linear Programming. Kluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht. Boston. London 1996, 248 pp., $112.00, ISBN 0-7923-3840-5. Horst, R., Pardalos, P. M. and Thoai, N. V., Introduction to Global Optimization. Nonconvex Optimization and its Applications 3. Kluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht. Boston. London 1995, 318 pp., & HB 109.00, ISBN 0-7923-3556-2; f PB 46.00, ISBN 0-7923-3557-0 Ledyard, J. 0 . (ed.), The Economics of Informational Decentralization: Complexity, Efficiency and Stability. Essays in Honor of Stanley Reiter. Kluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht. Boston. London 1995, 456 pp., & 129.25, ISBN 0-7923-9502-6. Mizrahi, A., Sullivan, M., Finite Mathematics. An Applied Approach. Seventh Edition. J. Wiley & Sons New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore 1996, 599 pp. and 53 pp. Appendix, £ 23, 50, ISBN 0-47 1 - 10700-X.