Excursions in Modern Mathematics
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Prentice Hall
c2010
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| Edition: | Seventh edition |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Mathematics of voting: the paradox of democracy
- 2. The Mathematics of power: weighted voting systems
- 3. The Mathematics of sharing: fair-division games
- 4. The Mathematics of apportionment: making the rounds
- 5. The Mathematics of getting around: euler paths and circuits
- 6. The Mathematics of touring: the traveling salesman problem
- 7. The Mathematics of networks: the cost of being connected
- 8. Chasing the critical path: The Mathematics of scheduling
- 9. The Mathematics of spiral growth in nature: fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio
- 10. The Mathematics of money: spending it, saving it, and growing it
- 11. The Mathematics of symmetry: beyond reflection
- 12. The geometry of fractal shapes: naturally irregular
- 13. Collecting statistical data: censuses, surveys, and clinical studies
- 14. Descriptive statistics: graphing and summarizing data
- 15. Chances, probabilities, and odds: measuring uncertainty
- 16. The Mathematics of normal distributions: the call of the bell