A Beginner's Guide to Finite Mathematics: For Business, Management, and the Social Sciences

This basic text is written in a concise fashion for undergraduates at the freshman/sophomore level. Topics are presented sequentially: a brief review of sets and numbers is followed by an introduction to data sets, i.e., histograms, means and medians, and then an introduction to counting which goes to the Binomial Theorem. This provides the basis for elementary probability theory.

Graph study is defined, with an emphasis on its use in modeling. Matrices and vectors are discussed, along with...