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Numbers in Our Lives | |
Identification Numbers and Check Digits | |
Modular Arithmetic and Check Digit Schemes | |
Encoding Data | |
Shapes in Our Lives | |
Tilings | |
Symmetry, Rigid Motions, and Escher Patters | |
Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Mean - Shapes in Nature | |
Voting and Elections | |
Voting Systems | |
Flaws of the Voting Systems | |
Weighted Voting Systems | |
Fair Division | |
Divide and Choose Methods | |
Discrete and Mixed Division Problems | |
Envy-Free Division | |
Apportionment | |
The Apportionment Problem - Quota Methods | |
The Apportionment Problem - Divisor Methods | |
Flaws of the Apportionment Methods | |
Routes and Networks | |
Routing Problems | |
Network Problems | |
The Traveling Salesperson Problem | |
Scheduling | |
Basic Concepts of Scheduling | |
The List-Processing Algorithm and the Decreasing-Time Algorithm | |
The Critical-Path Algorithm | |
Descriptive Statistics - Data and Patterns | |
Organizing and Picturing Data | |
Comparisons | |
Enhancement, Distraction, and Distortion | |
Collecting and Interpreting Data | |
Populations, Samples, and Data | |
Survey Sampling Methods | |
Measures of Central Tendency and Variability | |
Probability | |
Computing Probabilities in Simple Experiments | |
Computing Probabilities in Multistage Experiments | |
Conditional Probability, Expected Value, and Odds | |
Inferential Statistics | |
Normal Distributions | |
Applications of Normal Distributions | |
Confidence Intervals and Reliable Estimation | |
Growth And Decay | |
Malthusian Population Growth | |
Population Decrease, Radioactive Decay | |
Logistic Population Models | |
Consumer Mathematics--Buying and Saving | |
Simple and Compound Interest | |
Loans | |
Buying a House. | |
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