商品簡介
This introductory treatment for undergraduates provides insightful expositions of specific applications of mathematics and elements of mathematical history and culture. Topics include probability, statistics, voting systems, game theory, and linear programming. The Dover edition presents new chapters on geometry, Egyptian arithmetic, evolution of the normal distribution, and additional subjects.
作者簡介
Saul Stahl and Paul E. Johnson are Professors of Mathematics at the University of Kansas. Saul Stahl's other Dover book is Geometry from Euclid to Knots.