Synopses & Reviews
This successful text in the Tan Series offers students patient explanations, useful tools, and a wealth of interesting and relevant applications drawn from the fields of business, economics, and the social, behavioral, and physical science. More algebraically-oriented than most business mathematics texts, this book is designed to help business students lacking strong math background. It incorporates computer/graphing calculator material throughout.
About the Author
Soo T. Tan has published numerous papers in Optimal Control Theory and Numerical Analysis. He received his S.B. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his M.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. "One of the most important lessons I learned from my early experience teaching these courses is that many of the students come into these courses with some degree of apprehension. This awareness led to the intuitive approach I have adopted in all of my texts."
Table of Contents
1. Fundamentals of Algebra. 2. Functions and Their Graphs. 3. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions. 4. Mathematics of Finance. 5. Systems of Linear Equations and Matrices. 6. Linear Programming. 7. Probability. 8. Additional Topics in Probability. 9. The Derivative. 10. Applications of the Derivative. 11. Integration. 12. Calculus of Several Variables. Appendices.