For all practical purposes :introduction to contemporary mathematics. /
For all practical purposes :introduction to contemporary mathematics. /
project director, Solomon Garfunkel ; contributing authors, Joseph Malkevitch ... [et al.].
- 3rd ed.
- New York : W.H. Freeman and Co., 1994.
- xv, 722 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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: The continuous case -- Appointment -- Game theory: The mathematics of competition -- On size and shape: Growth and form -- Geometric growth -- Inaccessible distances -- Reflecting the universe -- New geometries for a new universe -- Symmetry and patterns -- Tilings.
0716723786
Mathematics.
QA7.F68 /
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: The continuous case -- Appointment -- Game theory: The mathematics of competition -- On size and shape: Growth and form -- Geometric growth -- Inaccessible distances -- Reflecting the universe -- New geometries for a new universe -- Symmetry and patterns -- Tilings.
0716723786
Mathematics.
QA7.F68 /