Note: Each chapter concludes with a Summary with Hints and Suggestions | |
Review Exercises, and Projects and Essays | |
Functions | |
Real Numbers, Inequalities, and Lines Application Preview: World-Record Mile Runs | |
Exponents Application Preview: Size, Shape, and Exponents | |
Functions Application Preview: Functional Drunkenness | |
Functions, continued Application Preview: Automobile Efficiency and Rational Functions | |
Exponential Functions Application Preview: Exponential Functions and the World's Worst Currency | |
Logarithmic Functions Application Preview: Carbon-14 Dating and the Shroud of Turin | |
Mathematics of Finance | |
Simple Interest Application Preview: Benjamin Franklin's Will | |
Compound Interest Application Preview: Musical Instruments as Investments | |
Annuities Application Preview: Retirement Planning | |
Amortization Application Preview: Loan Repayment and the Rule of 78 | |
Matrices and Systems of Equations | |
Systems of Two Linear Equations in Two Variables Application Preview: A "Taxing" Problem | |
Matrices and Linear Equations in Two Variables Application Preview: Spreadsheets | |
Systems of Linear Equations and the Gauss-Jordan Method Application Preview: Ancient Chinese Mathematics | |
Matrix Arithmetic Application Preview: Matrices and Computers | |
Inverse Matrices and Systems of Linear Equations Application Preview: Sensitivity Analysis | |
Two Applications | |
Linear Programming | |
Linear Inequalities Application Preview: Northwest Airlines and Crew Schedules | |
Two-Variable Linear Programming Problems Application Preview: Managing an Investment Portfolio | |
The Simplex Method for Standard Maximum Problems Application Preview: George Dantzig and the Origins of the Simplex Method | |
Duality and Standard Minimum Problems Application Preview: Diet Problems and "The Cost of Subsistence | |
Nonstandard Problems: The Dual Pivot Element and the Two-Stage Method Application Preview: Kantorovich and Production Planning | |
Nonstandard Problems: Artificial Variables and the Big-M Method Application Preview: Kantorovich and Production Planning | |
Probability | |
Sets, Counting, and Venn Diagrams Application Preview: The Chevalier de Mere | |
Permutations, Combinations, and the Binomial Theorem Application Preview: Starting Lineups | |
Probability Spaces Application Preview: Coincidences | |
Conditional Probability and Indedepence Application Preview: Independence and the Law | |
Bayes' Theorem Application Preview: Airline Hijacking | |
Random Variables and Distributions Application Preview: Home Run Records | |
Statistics | |
Random Samples and Data Organization Application Preview: Roosevelt and Landon in 1936 | |
Measures of Central Tendency Application Preview: Household Incomes | |
Measures of Variation Application Preview: Pain, Suffering, and Statistics | |
Normal Distributions and Binomial Approximation Application Preview: The Bell-Shape Curve | |
Markov Chains | |
States and Transitions Application Preview: Weather in Sri Lanka | |
Regular Markov Chains Application Preview: Hidden Markov Models and Genetics | |
Absorbing Markov Chains Application Preview: Random Walks | |
Logic | |
Statements and Connectives Application Preview: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric | |
Truth Tables Application Preview: Circuits | |
Implications Application Preview: "If..., then..." as a Computer Instruction | |
Valid Arguments Application Preview: Fuzzy Logic and Artificial Intelligence | |
Quantifiers and Euler Diagrams Application Preview: The Dog Walking Ordinance | |
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