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    <title>For all practical purposes: introduction to contemporary mathematics</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Garfunkel, Solomon A.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1943-</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Malkevitch, Joseph</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1942-</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>W.H. Freeman and Co.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1997</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1994</dateIssued>
    <edition>4th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxii, 884 pages, 57 unnumbered pages :  illustrations (some color). ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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 -- </tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">project director, Solomon Garfunkel ; contributing authors, Joseph Malkevitch ... [et al.].</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">QA7.F68  </classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0716728419</identifier>
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