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Mathematical Excursions
Richard Aufmann, Joanne Lockwood, Richard Nation, Daniel K. Clegg
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Mathematical Excursions
Richard Aufmann, Joanne Lockwood, Richard Nation, Daniel K. Clegg
About This Book
MATHEMATICAL EXCURSIONS, Fourth Edition, teaches you that mathematics is a system of knowing and understanding our surroundings. For example, sending information across the Internet is better understood when one understands that prime numbers are connected to credit card transactions; that compound interest is connected to student loans; and that the perils of radioactive waste take on new meaning when one understands exponential functions are connected to the disasters at Fukushima, Japan. The efficiency of the flow of traffic through an intersection is more interesting after seeing the system of traffic lights represented in a mathematical form. These are just a few of the facets of mathematics you will explore with this text. MATHEMATICAL EXCURSIONS will expand the way you know, perceive, and comprehend the world around you. Enjoy the journey!
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- AIM for Success
- Chapter 1: Problem Solving
- Chapter 2: Sets
- Chapter 3: Logic
- Chapter 4: Apportionment and Voting
- Chapter 5: The Mathematics of Graphs
- Chapter 6: Numeration Systems and Number Theory
- Chapter 7: Measurement and Geometry
- Chapter 8: Mathematical Systems
- Chapter 9: Applications of Equations
- Chapter 10: Applications of Functions
- Chapter 11: The Mathematics of Finance
- Chapter 12: Combinatorics and Probability
- Chapter 13: Statistics
- Solutions to Check Your Progress Problems
- Answers to Selected Exercises
- Index of Applications
- Index