TITLE: Linear Programming Books
QUESTION [33 upvotes]: Do you know of a good book on linear programming? To be more specific, i am taking linear optimization class and my textbook sucks. Teacher is not too involved in this class so can't get too much help from him either,
Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you

REPLY [3 votes]: I can recommend two books not mentioned here.
First is Understanding and Using Linear Programming by Jiri Matousek and Bernd Gärtner.
Here you find basic intro into geometry, simplex method, duality and interior point method with proofs.
Second is Combinatorial Optimization by  Cook, Cunningham, Pulleyblank, Schrijver.
This is more a books of application ( with proofs )  full of algorithms using linear and integer programming, duality, also unimodularity, Chvatal-Gomory cuts and solving TSP with various methods. Both books are complementary ;) I recommend starting with first one and read few chapters of Combinatorial Optimization to get another look at things.