The Smart Guide to Practical Math

by Jim Stein

Overview

Regardless of whether they are housewives or auto mechanics, doctors or lawyers, or students or businessmen, The Smart Guide to Practical Math provides readers with responses to the questions they want answered about everyday math. From how many pounds of hamburger are required to make meatloaf to feed 12 people to how much to invest annually to be able to send a child to college, and whether it’s really a good idea to buy fuel additive for a car, this guide provides readers with practical mathematical formulas that can serve as templates for a number of real-life scenarios.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781937636630
Publisher:	Smart Guide Publications, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2015
Series:	Smart Guides Series
Edition description:	Second Edition, Second edition
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jim Stein is a Professor of Mathematics at California State University in Long Beach. A graduate of Yale University with a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, Jim has written 30 technical articles on mathematics and several books explaining mathematics for general audiences.

His books How Math Explains the World and How Math Can Save Your Life were selections for the Scientific American Book Club. His book The Right Decision resulted in his being invited to be a guest blogger for the Huffington Post and Psychology Today.