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9781429209007

For All Practical Purposes : Mathematical Literacy in Today's World

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  • ISBN13:

    9781429209007

  • ISBN10:

    1429209003

  • Edition: 8th
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-10-31
  • Publisher: W. H. Freeman

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The leading applied text for the liberal arts mathematics course returns, ready to help students develop the mathematical literacy needed to vote smartly, shop wisely, plan finances, and support their opinions. In the new edition you will find a wealth of new and updated content, enhanced pedagogy, and expanded media options, including the new MathPortal. Energize your classroom with real-world problem solving! Get FAPP!

Table of Contents

PART 1 MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
 
Chapter 1 Urban Services
1.1 Euler Circuits
1.2 Finding Euler Circuits
1.3 Beyond Euler Circuits
1.4 Urban Graph Traversal Problems
 
Chapter 2 Business Efficiency
2.1 Hamiltonian Circuits
2.2 Traveling Salesman Problem
2.3 Helping Traveling Salesmen
2.4 Minimum-Cost Spanning Trees
2.5 Critical-Path Analysis
 
Chapter 3 Planning and Scheduling
3.1 Scheduling Tasks
3.2 Critical-Path Schedules
3.3 Independent Tasks
3.4 Bin Packing
3.5 Resolving Conflict via Coloring
 
Chapter 4 Linear Programming
4.1 Mixture Problems: Combining Resources to Maximize Profit
4.2 Finding the Optimal Production Policy
4.3 Why the Corner Point Principle Works
4.4 Linear Programming: Life is Complicated
4.5 A Transportation Problem: Delivering Perishables
4. Improving on the Current Solution
 
PART 2 STATISTICS: THE SCIENCE OF DATA
 
Chapter 5 Exploring Data: Distributions
5.1 Displaying Distributions: Histograms
5.2 Interpreting Histograms
5.3 Displaying Distributions: Stemplots
5.4 Describing Center: Mean and Median
5.5 Describing Spread: The Quartiles
5.6 The Five-Number Summary and Boxplots
5.7 Describing Spread: The Standard Deviation
5.8 Noraml Distributions
5.9 The 68-95-99.7 Rule
 
Chapter 6 Exploring Data: Relationships
6.1 Displaying Relationships: Scatterplot
6.2 Making Predictions: Regression Line
6.3 Correlation
6.4 Least-Squares Regression
6.5 Interpreting Correlation and Regression
 
Chapter 7 Data for Decisions
7.1 Sampling
7.2 Bad Sampling Methods
7.3 Simple Random Samples
7.4 Cautions About Sample Surveys
7.5 Experiments
7.6 Experiments Versus Observational Studies
7.7 Inference: From Sample to Population
7.8 Cofidence Intervals
 
Chapter 8 Probability: the Mathematics of Chance
8.1 Probability Models and Rules
8.2 Discrete Probability Models
8.3 Equally Likely Outcomes
8.4 Continuous Probability Models
8.5 The Mean and Standard Deviation of a Probability Model
8.6 The Central Limit Theorem
 
PART 3 VOTING AND SOCIAL CHOICE
 
Chapter 9 Social Choice: The Impossible Dream
9.1 Majority Rule and Condorcet's Method
9.2 Other Voting Systems for Three or More Candidates
9.3 Insurmountable Difficulties: Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
9.4 A Better Approach? Approval Voting
 
Chapter 10 The Manipulability of Voting Systems
10.1 Majority Rule and Condorcet's Method
10.2 The Manipulability of Other Voting Systems for Three or More Candidates
10.3 Impossibility
10.4 The Chair's Paradox
 
Chapter 11 Weighted Voting Systems
11.1 How Weighted Voting Works
11.2 The Shapley-Shubik Power Index
11.3 The Banzhaf Power Index
11.4 Comparing Voting Systems
 
Chapter 12 Electing the President
12.1 Spatial Models for Two-Candidate Elections
12.2 Spatial Models for Multicandidate Elections
12.3 Narrowing the Field
12.4 What Drives Candidates Out?
12.5 Election Reform: Approval Voting
12.6 The Electoral College
12.7 Is There a Better Way to Elect a President?
 
PART 4 FAIRNESS AND GAME THEORY
 
Chapter 13 Fair Division
13.1 The Adjusted Winner Procedure
13.2 The Knaster Inheritance Procedure
13.3 Fair Division and Organ Transplant Policies
13.4 Taking Turns
13.5 Divide-and-Choose
13.6 Cake-Division Procedures: Proportionality
13.7 Cake-Division Procedures: The Problem of Envy
 
Chapter 14 Apportionment
14.1 The Apportionment Problem
14.2 The Hamilton Method
14.3 Divisor Methods
14.4 Which Divisor Method is Best?
 
Chapter 15 Game Theory: The Mathematics of Competition
15.1 Two-Person Total-Conflict Games: Pure Strategies
15.2 Two-Person Total Conflict: Mixed Strategies
15.3 Partial-Conflict Games
15.4 Larger Games
15.5 Using Game Theory
 
PART 5 THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION
 
Chapter 16 Identification Numbers
16.1 Check Digits
16.2 The ZIP Code
16.3 Bar Codes
16.4 Encoding Personal Data
 
Chapter 17 Information Science
17.1 Binary Codes
17.2 Encoding with Parity-Check Sums
17.3 Cryptography
17.4 Web Searches and Mathematical Logic
 
PART  ON SIZE AND GROWTH

Chapter 18 Growth and Form
18.1 Geometric Similarity
18.2 How Much Is That in...?
18.3 Scaling a Mountain
18.4 Sorry, No King Kongs
18.5 Dimension Tension
18.6 How to Grow
 
Chapter 19 Symmetry and Patterns
19.1 Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ration
19.2 Rosette, Strip, and Wallpaper Patterns
19.3 Notation for Patterns
19.4 Symmetry Groups
19.5 Fractal Patterns and Chaos
 
Chapter 20 Tilings
20.1 Tilings with Regular Polygons
20.2 Tiling with Irregular Polygons
20.3 Using Translations
20.4 Using Translations Plus Half Turns
20.5 Nonperiodic Tilings
 
PART 7 YOUR MONEY AND RESOURCES
 
Chapter 21 Savings Models
21.1 Arithmetic Growth and Simple Interest
21.2 Geometric Growth and Compound Interest
21.3 A Limit to Compounding
21.4 A Model for Saving
21.5 Present Value and Inflation
 
Chapter 22 Borrowing Models
22.1 Simple Interest
22.2 Compound Interest
22.3 Conventional Loans
22.4 Annuities
 
Chapter 23 The Economics of Resources
23.1 Growth Models for Biological Populations
23.2 How Long Can a Nonrenewable Resource Last?
23.3 Sustaining Renewable Resources
23.4 The Economics of Harvesting Resources
23.5 Dynamical Systems and Chaos
 
 
CUSTOM CHAPTERS
The following chapters are available through Freeman's custom publishing (restrictions may apply), as well as through the Online Study Center, MathPortal, and eBook:
  • Sets
  • Problem Solving
  • Logic
  • Geometry
  • Counting and Probability
  • Numeration Systems
  • Personal Finance
 To review any of these chapters, contact your local W. H. Freeman representative.
 

 
 
 

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