The document describes the travelling salesperson problem (TSP) and different approaches to solve it, including linear programming (LP) and dynamic programming (DP). It presents two LP formulations - one using a boolean decision variable matrix and constraints, and another using decision variables to represent the tour order. It also provides a DP formulation that recursively calculates the shortest tour length between subsets of remaining cities. An example problem is worked through step-by-step to demonstrate the DP approach.