Using and understanding mathematics: a quantitative reasoning approach for daily living. /
Jeffrey Bennett, William Briggs
- 3rd ed.
- London: Pearson, 2005.
- xvi, 739 p. + various pagings : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Thinking critically -- Approaches to problem solving -- Numbers in the real world -- Financial management -- Statistical reasoning -- putting statistics to work -- Probability: living with the odds -- Exponential astonishment -- Modeling our world -- Modeling with geometry -- Mathematics and the arts -- Mathematics and politics -- Mathematics and business --