TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garfunkel,Solomon A.
AU  - Malkevitch,Joseph
ED  - COMAP
TI  - For all practical purposes: introduction to contemporary mathematics.
SN  - 0716728419
AV  - QA7.F68  
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.H. Freeman and Co.
KW  - Mathematics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Management science: Street networks -- Visiting vertices -- Planning and scheduling -- Linear programming -- Statistics: The science of data: Producing data -- Describing data -- Probability: The mathematics of change -- Statistical inferences -- Coding information: Identification numbers and bar codes -- Transmitting information -- Social choice and decision making: Social choice: The Impossible dream -- Weighted voting systems -- Fair division -- Apportionment -- Game theory: The mathematics of competition -- Theory of moves: a dynamic approach to games -- On size and shape: Growth and form -- Geometric growth -- New geometries for a new universe -- Symmetry and patterns -- Tilings. -- Answers to odd-numbered exercises --
ER  -