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Engineering education must also focus on social aspects
Published Mon, Dec 17, 2018 · 09:50 PM
IN THE course of his studies, every engineer encounters - and attempts to solve - the travelling salesman problem. In essence, this is an optimisation challenge that involves helping an itinerant salesman visit a series of towns by covering as short a distance as possible, and without visiting any town twice.
What is truly fascinating about this decades-old puzzle is the clash between the utter simplicity of its formulation, a…
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