Mathematics: A Practical Odyssey - Hardcover

Johnson, David B.; Mowry, Thomas A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534400590 ISBN 13: 9780534400590

Verlag: Brooks/Cole, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This text is intended for use in a liberal arts mathematics course. The book emphasizes the practical applications as well as the history of mathematics, showing students that mathematics is relevant to their education and to human history and culture.

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Críticas

"The three greatest strengths are: 'variety of exercises, ' 'current/relevant examples, ' and 'variety of topics to chose from.'"

Reseña del editor

MATHEMATICS: A PRACTICAL ODYSSEY is a market leader, well known for its clear writing and unique variety of topics, including its accessible chapters on logarithms and exponential functions, calculus and Markov chains. Johnson and Mowry's text emphasizes the practical applications and the history of mathematics. It illustrates to students how mathematics is relevant to their education, human history, and culture. The authors effectively demonstrate how learning algebraic concepts allows students to understand more about how logic, probability, statistics, finance, geometry, matrices, logarithms, calculus, and other topics are vital to everyday life.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Brooks/Cole
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0534400590
• ISBN 13: 9780534400590
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 840
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