Math in Society
by David Lippman
Publisher: Lulu.com 2013
Number of pages: 432
Description:
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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