Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The first edition of this popular text and reference has been translated into five languages! Students and practitioners will understand why when they use this powerful study tool and see how it makes learning and doing finite mathematics so much easier. They'll also appreciate, in this edition, the all new sections on graph theory, descriptive and inferential statistics and the mathematics of finance. Handy appendixes help computation of material in the text and illustrate the computing capabilities of graphing calculators.
Table of Contents
Linear Equations and Their Graphs.
Systems of Linear Equations.
Vectors and Matrices.
Linear Inequalities.
Linear Programming I: A Geometric Approach.
Linear Programming II: The Simplex Method.
Eulerian Graphs.
Hamiltorian Graphs.
Directed Graphs and Minimal Spanning Trees.
Set Theory.
Combinatorial Analysis.
Basic Probability.
Conditional Probability and Independence.
Random Variables.
Binomial and Normal Distributions.
Descriptive Statistics.
Inferential Statistics.
Theory of Games.
Interest of Investment and Loans.
Annuities.
Propositional Calculus.
Tables.