TY  - BOOK
TI  - For all practical purposes: introduction to contemporary mathematics 
SN  - 9780716723783
U1  - 510 22
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.H FREEMAN AND COMPANY
KW  - Mathematics
N1  - PAR 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. Producing data
Chapter 6. Describing data
Chapter 7. Probability: the mathematics of chance
Chapter 8. Statistical interference

PART III. CODING INFORMATION
Chapter 9. Identification 
Chapter 10. Transmitting information

PART IV. SOCIAL CHOICE AND DECISION MAKING
Chapter 11. Social choice: the impossible dream
Chapter 12. Weighted voting systems 
Chapter 13. Fair division
Chapter 14. Apportionment
Chapter 15. The game theory: The mathematics of competition

PART V. ON SIZE AND SHAPE
Chapter 16. Growth and form
Chapter 17. Geometric growth 
Chapter 18. Inaccessible distances
Chapter 19. Reflecting the universe 
Chapter 20. New geometries for new universe
Chapter 21. Symmetry and Patterns 
Chapter 22. Tilings 

; Includes index
ER  -