I Introduction 5 1 On Operations Research 6 1.1 What is Operations Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.2 History of Operations Research* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.3 Phases of Operations Research Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2 On Linear Programming 13 2.1 Example towards Linear Programming . . . . . . . . . ....