For all practical purposes : introduction to contemporary mathematics /
Joseph Malkevitch ... [et al.].
- 2nd edition
- New York : W.H. Freeman, c1991.
- xvii,626p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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