TY  - BOOK
ED  - Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (U.S.)
TI  - For all practical purposes: introduction to contemporary mathematics 
SN  - 0716728419
U1  - 510 22
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.H. Freeman
KW  - Mathematics
N1  - 

CONTENT

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

Part II. Statistics: The science of data
5. Producing data
6. Describing data
7. Probability: The mathematics of change
8. Statistical interference

Part II. Coding information
9. Identification numbers
10. Transmitting information

Part IV. Social choice and decision making
11. Social choice: The impossible dream
12. Weighted voting systems
13 Fair division
14. Appointment
15. Game theory: The mathematics of competition
16. Theory of moves: A dynamic approach to games

Part V. On size and shape
17. Growth and form
18. Geometric growth
19. New geometries for new universe
20. Symmetry and patterns
21. Tilings
Answers to odd-numbered exercises




; Includes index
ER  -