Book Review: Finite free resolutions
Melvin Hochster · Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society · 1978
REVIEWS found and the objects detected but not yet verified.Optimal solutions which use this information cannot be determined with the methods used (see Chapter VI); policies which are "optimal" neglecting the feedback can be found, but simple adaptive policies are shown to improve on them.(If there is a significant criticism of the work under review, it is that insufficient attention is paid to algorithms which achieve or approximate optima in relatively complex situations, as opposed to problems which admit of elegant solutions.)I have surveyed essentially the first six chapters of the book but have not done justice to the thoroughness and clarity of the exposition nor to the numerous and helpful examples.The remaining chapters deal with approximations and with moving targets, for which some interesting results are found, though not of the same generality as the earlier work.