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Is there a good set of linear programming / linear optimization video lectures somewhere?

I found "Linear programming and Extensions" by Prof. Prabha Sharma, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Are there other good ones? Thanks.

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    Syllabus for Prof. Prabha Sharma's course: http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/syllabus/syllabus.php?subjectId=1111040272012-10-21

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Boyd's Convex Optimization lectures are a good resource.

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    $B$ert$s$imas' text [*Introduction to Linear Optimization*](http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Linear-Optimization-Scientific-Computation/dp/1886529191), p. 17: "linear programming can be used to sol$v$e problems with piecewise linear con$v$ex cost functions, and the latter class of functions can be used as an approxi$m$ation of more general convex cost functions. On the other hand, such a piecewise linear approximation is not always a good idea because it can turn a smooth function into a nonsmooth one (piecewise linear functions have discontinuous derivatives)."2012-10-28