Applied Finite Mathematics - Hardcover

Tan, Soo Tang

9780534955625: Applied Finite Mathematics

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534955622 ISBN 13: 9780534955625

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 1997

Written with the needs of business oriented students in mind, "Applied Finite Mathematics, Fifth Edition," like the author's other respected texts, takes a real-life, problem-solving approach to make the subject accessible and understandable. Applications and examples are drawn from business, economics, the social and behavioral sciences, and the life and physical sciences. The text is designed to give students a background in quantitative techniques and lays a foundation for more advanced courses, such as statistics and operations research. Tan's concise, inviting writing style and the wide variety of helpful in-text learning features augment this text's user-friendly feel. Wherever possible, the author uses an intuitive approach to present new mathematical concepts. Results are often presented informally--without compromising the mathematical content and accuracy--to help students understand new material.

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About the Author:

By the time I started writing the first of what turned out to be a series of textbooks in mathematics for students in the managerial, life, and social sciences, I had quite a few years of experience teaching mathematics to non-mathematics majors. 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. As you will see, I try to introduce each abstract mathematical concept through an example drawn from a common real life experience. Once the idea has been conveyed, I then proceed to make it precise, thereby assuring that no mathematical rigor is lost in this intuitive treatment of the subject. Another lesson I learned from my students, is that they have a much greater appreciation of the material if the applications are drawn from their fields of interest and from situations that occur in the real world. This is one reason you will see so many exercises in my texts that are modeled from data gathered from newspapers, magazines, journals, and other media. Whether it be the ups and downs of the stock market, the growth of HMOs in the U.S., the solvency of the social security system, the budget deficit, the aids epidemic, or the growth of the internet, I weave topics of current interest into my examples and exercises, to keep the book relevant to all of my readers.

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