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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0716723786 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mathematics.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA7.F68  /