Operations research book to start with for somebody having a quite strong background in Mathematics, which are some good books for the domain of Operations research? I guess there are textbooks covering topics like linear and nonlinear optimization, convex optimization and quadratic programming, dynamic programming, multicriterial optimizations (did I miss something?)
Thanks,
Lucian 
 A: Linear Programming -- A Concise Introduction by Thomas S. Ferguson and other ebooks/lecture notes on Optimization listed in Rod Carvalho's web notebook.
Addendum:  The classic and complete book by Hillier and Lieberman Introduction to Operations Research 
A: If you want books that give a broad introduction to operations research (including optimization, queuing theory etc.)
The classics are:
Operations Research - Ronald Rardin
Operations Research - Wayne Winston
They are excellent from pedagogical point of view. 
If you want to get into linear programming, this book is widely regarded to be one of the best:
Linear Programming - Vasek Chvatal.
For nonlinear programming:
Nonlinear programming - Dimitri Bertsekas
A: Here is a compilation of books taken from OR-Exchange.
http://industrialengineertools.blogspot.com/2010/08/favorite-operations-research-books-from.html
A: Winston-Operations Research-Applications and Algorithms is a very good book to start with.
A: introduction to operation research-Hillier and Libermann
They give pretty good motivation for the material being presented
A: Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe's book is popular, and available free online:
http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/
