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Math in Society by David Lippman

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Math in Society
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Publisher: Lulu.com
Number of pages: 432

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A survey of math for liberal arts majors. Introduces contemporary mathematics topics: voting theory, weighted voting, fair division, graph theory, scheduling, growth models, finance math, statistics, and historical counting systems.

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