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For all practical purposes : introduction to contemporary mathematics / Joseph Malkevitch ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : W.H. Freeman, c1991.Edition: 2nd editionDescription: xvii,626p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0716721155 :
  • 9780716721154
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510 22 FOR
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CONTENT

Part I. Management science
Chapter 1 Street networks
Chapter 2. Visiting Vertices
Chapter 3. Planning and scheduling
Chapter 4. Linear programming

Part II. Statistics: The science of data
Chapter 5. Collecting data
Chapter 6. Describing data
Chapter 7. Probability: The mathematics of chance
Chapter 8. Statistical interference

Part III. Social choice and decision making
Chapter 9. Social choice : The impossible dream
Chapter 10. Weighted voting systems: How to measure power
Chapter 11. Fair division and appointment
Chapter 12. Game theory: The mathematics of competition

Part IV. On size and shape
Chapter 13. growth and form
Chapter 14. The size of populations
Chapter 15 Measurement
Chapter 16 Measuring the universe with telescope
Chapter 17. Patterns

Part V. Computers
Chapter 18 Computer logarithms
Chapter 19 Computer codes and data storage
Chapter 20. Computer graphics
Answers to odd-numbered exercises



Includes bibliographical references index.

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