TY - BOOK AU - Garfunkel,Solomon A. AU - Malkevitch,Joseph TI - For all practical purposes :introduction to contemporary mathematics. SN - 0716723786 AV - QA7.F68 PY - 1994/// 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: 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 ER -