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

by W.D. Wallis

Overview

This second edition of A Beginner’s Guide to Finite Mathematics: For Business, Management, and the Social Sciences takes a distinctly applied approach to finite mathematics at the freshman and sophomore level. Topics are presented sequentially: the book opens with a brief review of sets and numbers, followed by an introduction to data sets, histograms, means and medians. Counting techniques and the Binomial Theorem are covered, which provide the foundation for elementary probability theory; this, in turn, leads to basic statistics. This new edition includes chapters on game theory and financial mathematics.

Requiring little mathematical background beyond high school algebra, the text will be especially useful for business and liberal arts majors for study in the classroom or for self-study. Its straightforward treatment of the essential concepts in finite mathematics will appeal to a wide audience of students and teachers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817683184
Publisher:	Birkhäuser Boston
Publication date:	04/18/2012
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2012
Pages:	483
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

Preface.-Numbers and Sets.-Counting.-Probability.-Graph Theory.- Linear Equations and Matrices.- Linear Programming.-Theory of Games.-Financial Mathematics.-Your Turn Solutions.- Answers to Exercises A.- Index.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

“This second edition of Wallis’ concisely written textbook on finite mathematics can be a valuable resource for freshmen and sophomores. An economy of language lends elegance and clarity to this text, which is unusual among comparable texts that I work with. … helpful for parents or students seeking a resource to supplement a required textbook during the first couple of years of pre-calculus college algebra.” (Tom Schulte, MAA Reviews, March, 2013)

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