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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey O Bennett; William L Briggs |
| ISBN: | 0201717115 9780201717112 |
| OCLC Number: | 46785215 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Using and understanding mathematics. 1st ed. Reading, MA : Addison-Wesley, c1999. |
| Description: | xviii, 680 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Literacy for the modern world -- Logic and problem solving -- Thinking critically -- Recognizing fallacies -- Propositions and truth values -- Sets and Venn diagrams -- Sets of numbers -- Analyzing arguments -- Critical thinking in everyday life -- Approaches to problem solving -- The problem-solving power of units -- Working with fractions -- Standardized units: more problem-solving power -- Powers of 10 -- Problem-solving guidelines and hints -- Quantitative information in everyday life -- Numbers in the real world -- Uses and abuses of percentages -- Percentages -- What is a ratio? -- Putting numbers in perspective -- Working with scientific notation -- Dealing with uncertainty -- Rounding -- Index numbers: the CPI and beyond -- How numbers deceive: polygraphs, mammograms, and more -- Financial management -- The power of compounding -- Three basic rules of algebra -- Savings plans and investments -- Algebra with powers and roots -- Loan payments, credit cards, and mortgages -- Income taxes -- Understanding the federal budget -- Probability and statistics -- Statistical reasoning -- Fundamentals of statistics -- Should you belive a statistical study? -- Statistical tables and graphs -- Graphics in the media -- Correlation and causality -- Putting statistics to work -- Characterizing a data distribution -- Measures of variation -- The normal distribution -- Statistical inference -- Probability: living with the odds -- Fundamentals of probability -- The multiplication principle -- Combining probabilities -- The law of averages -- Assessing risk -- Counting and probability -- Factorials -- Modeling -- Exponential astonishment -- Growth: linear versus exponential -- Doubling time and half-life -- Logarithms -- Real population growth -- Logarithmic scales: earthquakes, sounds, and acids -- Modeling our world -- Functions: the building blocks of mathematical models -- The coordinate plane -- Linear modeling -- Exponential modeling -- Algebra with logarithms -- Further applications -- Mathematics and the arts -- Fundamentals of geometry -- Mathematics and music -- Perspective and symmetry -- Proportion and the golden ration -- Fractal geometry -- Mathematics and politics -- Voting: does the majority always rule? -- Theory of voting -- Apportionment: the House of Representatives and beyond -- Mathematics and business -- Network analysis -- The traveling salesman problem -- Scheduling problems. |
| Other Titles: | Mathematics |
| Responsibility: | Jeffrey O. Bennett, William L. Briggs. |
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