About Authors
Dr. P K Gupta has over three decades of experience in teaching Mathematics and Operations Research to undergraduate and Post-Graduate students. He obtained a master's degree in Mathematics, and another one in Operations Research from the University of Delhi. He obtained his doctorate in 1977 in the field of Queuing Theory.
He served as a faculty member in various capacities at the Department of Mathematics, J.V. Jain College, Saharanpur; where he taught a range of topics on Mathematics and Operations Research. These included Boolean Algebra, Linear Algebra, Difference Equations, Graph Theory and Techniques of Operations Research.
In 1979, he was invited by the Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi (Kerala) to teach the students of their new diploma course in Operations Research and Computer Applications. He also has been actively engaged in research in the discipline. He supervised multiple Ph.D scholars in Optimization of Queues and also applied optimization techniques in paper industry. He has authored more than half a dozen books of Mathematics and Operations Research, in addition to multiple research publications.