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Math plays a vital role in our increasingly complex daily life. Finite Mathematics for the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences attempts to illustrate this point with its applied approach to mathematics. Students have a much greater appreciation of the material if the applications are drawn from their fields of interest and from situations that occur in the real world. This is one reason you will see so many exercises in my texts that are modeled on data gathered from newspapers, magazines, journals, and other media. In addition, many students come into this course with some degree of apprehension. For this reason, I have adopted an intuitive approach in which I try to introduce each abstract mathematical concept through an example drawn from a common life experience. Once the idea has been conveyed, I then proceed to make it precise, thereby ensuring that no mathematical rigor is lost in this intuitive treatment of the subject.
The only prerequisite for understanding this text is one to two years, or the equivalent, of high school algebra. This text offers more than enough material for a onesemester or two-quarter course. The following chapter dependency chart is provided to help the instructor design a course that is most suitable for the intended audience.
Contents
Straight Lines and Linear Functions a
Systems of Linear Equations and Matrices
Linear Programming: A Geometric Approach
Linear Programming: An Algebraic Approach
Mathematics of Finance
Sets and Counting
Probability
Probability Distributions and Statistics
Markov Chains and the Theory of Games
Appendixes
Introduction to Logic
The System of Real Numbers
Review of Logarithms
Tables