01765pam a2200265 a 4500 2997401 20210414114655.0 930720s1994 nyua b 001 0 eng 0716728419 DLC DLC DLC QA7.F68 COMAP For all practical purposes: introduction to contemporary mathematics. / project director, Solomon Garfunkel ; contributing authors, Joseph Malkevitch ... [et al.]. 4th ed. New York : W.H. Freeman and Co., 1997. xxii, 884 pages, 57 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color). ; 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 -- 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 -- Mathematics. Garfunkel, Solomon A., 1943- Malkevitch, Joseph, 1942- 7 cbc orignew 1 ocip 19 y-gencatlg lcc BK 7287 14787 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-KL WIUC-KL GEN 2019-11-19 QA7.F68(4e) K/2605/2605/19 2020-05-25 00:00:00 2020-05-25 BK