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- Part 1: Management Science - Chapter 1: Street Networks Chapter 2: Visiting Vertices Chapter 3: Planning and Scheduling Chapter 4: Linear Programming - Part 2: Statistics: The Science of Data - Chapter 5: Producing Data Chapter 6: Exploring Data Chapter 7: Probablility: The Mathematics of Chance Chapter 8: Statistical Inference - Part 3: Coding Information - Chapter 9: Identification Numbers Chapter 10: Transmitting Information - Part 4: 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: Game Theory: The Mathematics of Competition - Part 5: On Size and Shape - Chapter 16: Growth and Form Chapter 17: Symmetry and Patterns Chapter 18: Tilings - Part 6: Modeling in Mathematics - Chapter 19: Logic and Modelling Chapter 20: Consumer Finance Models

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