Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 510
EAN num: 9780130655806
ISBN number: 0130655805
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 1200
Printing Date: July 15, 2002
Publishing house: Prentice Hall
Sale Popularity Level: 857912
Studio: Prentice Hall
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This user-friendly survey of applied mathematics prepares readers to deal with the finite mathematics and calculus they may encounter while working in business, economics, life sciences, or social sciences. The emphasis throughout is on computational skills, ideas, and problem solving—rather than on mathematical theory. It features numerous worked, annotated, step-by-step examples and an abundance of applications, problems, and exercises for practice. The use of graphing calculators and computers is addressed throughout and web references lead readers to sites where they will find sources of real data for applications, further discusion of applications, further examples of topics, etc. A Beginning Library of Elementary Functions. Additional Elementary Functions. Mathematics of Finance. Systems of Linear Equations; Matrices. Linear Inequalities and Linear Programming. Probability. Markov Chains. The Derivative. Graphing and Optimization. Additional Derivative Topics. Integration. Additional Integration Topics. Multivariable Calculus. Differential Equations. Probability and Calculus. Basic Algebra Review. Special Topics. For anyone needing a solid introduction to the mathematics used in business, economics, life science, and social sciences.
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I used the second edition of this book many years ago in college. Its easy to understand and does a good job of covering its intended subject matter.
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This book is just very good. It is a top-quality, superbly on target solution for end users of mathematics. I had selected and subsequently used it as a textbook for a freshman calculus course aimed at prospective economics majors at an Ivy League college. My goal was to present a broad scope of the fundamental concepts of applied mathematics relevant to the social sciences, while keeping the exposition at the basic level of mathematical sophistication. Given the objective, one needs a textbook that would replace most proofs with carefully chosen exemplifications, rely on technically undemanding exercises, but enable the teacher to introduce concepts at a lively pace and tie them to interesting applications. This textbook meets all the requirements.
Our course used essentially only the more advanced parts of the book. The selection of topics was systematized by the idea of staying focused on some of the basic mathematical methods designed for solving broadly understood problems of optimization, extrapolation, and prediction. Formally, students were required to learn algorithmic skills, like finding extrema of functions of one and several variables, linear programming, basic routines for ordinary differential equations and Markov chains. Primary emphasis was put on understanding the differences and similarities between continuous and discrete, deterministic and random. The book served us well and we felt truly rewarded by its amazing collection of well selected, well thought-through real-life applications. I am enthusiastic about this book and so were very many of my students.
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