For all practical purposes: introduction to contemporary mathematics. / project director, Solomon Garfunkel ; contributing authors, Joseph Malkevitch ... [et al.].
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TextPublisher: New York : W.H. Freeman and Co., 1997Edition: 4th edDescription: xxii, 884 pages, 57 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color). ; 25 cmISBN: 0716728419Subject(s): MathematicsLOC classification: QA7.F68 | | Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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 --
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