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For All Practical Purposes

Mathematical Literacy in Today's World

Ninth Edition ©2013

ISBN-10: 1-4292-4316-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4316-2
Cloth Text, 912 pages

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Part I: Management Science
Chapter 1: Urban Services
Chapter 2: Business Efficiency
Chapter 3: Planning and Scheduling
Chapter 4: Linear Programming
 
Part II: Statistics: The Science of Data
Chapter 5: Exploring Data: Distributions
Chapter 6: Exploring Data: Relationships
Chapter 7: Data for Decisions
Chapter 8: Probability: the Mathematics of Chance
 
Part III: Voting and Social Choice
Chapter 9: Social Choice: The Impossible Dream
Chapter 10: The Manipulability of Voting Systems
Chapter 11: Weighted Voting Systems
Chapter 12: Electing the President
 
Part IV: Fairness and Game Theory
Chapter 13: Fair Division
Chapter 14: Apportionment
Chapter 15: Game Theory: The Mathematics of Competition
 
Part V: The Digital Revolution
Chapter 16: Identification Numbers
Chapter 17: Information Science
 
Part VI: On Size and Growth
Chapter 18: Growth and Form
Chapter 19: Symmetry and Patterns
Chapter 20: Tilings
 
Part VII: Your Money and Resources
Chapter 21: Savings Models
Chapter 22: Borrowing Models
Chapter 23: The Economics of Resources

These additional chapters are available through custom publishing, the text's Online Study Center, and MathPortal:

  • Sets
  • Problem Solving
  • Logic
  • Geometry
  • Counting and Probability
  • Numeration Systems
  • Personal Finance

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