9781429243162 (alk. paper : student ed. : hardcover)
9781429254823 (student ed. : pbk.)
b519133
For all practical purposes :
[Book]
mathematical literacy in today's world
9th ed
New York, NY :
W.H. Freeman and Co.,
c2013
xviii, 867, 4, 30, 8 p. :
ill. (some col.) ;
26 cm
By the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part I. Management Science -- Urban services ; Business efficiency ; Planning and scheduling ; Linear programming -- Part II. Statistics: the science of data -- Exploring data: distributions ; Exploring data: relationships ; Data for decisions ; Probability: the mathematics of chance -- Part III. Voting and social change -- Social choice: the impossible dream ; The manipulability of voting systems ; Weighted voting systems ; Electing the President -- Part IV. Fairness and game theory -- Fair division ; Apportionment ; Game theory : the mathematics of competition -- Part V. The digital revolution -- Identification numbers ; Information science -- Part VI. On size and growth -- Growth and form ; Symmetry and patterns ; Tilings -- Part VII. Your money and resources -- Savings models ; Borrowing models ; The economics of resources
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Mathematical literacy in today's world
Mathematical readiness, Textbooks
Mathematics, Textbooks
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QA7
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F68
2013
Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (U.S.)