A Mathematical View of Our World (with CD-ROM and iLrn™ Student, and Personal Tutor Printed Access Card) (Available Titles CengageNOW) - Hardcover

Parks, Harold; Musser, Gary; Trimpe, Lynn; Maurer, Vikki; Maurer, Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0495010618 ISBN 13: 9780495010616

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2006

Synopsis

Harness the power of mathematics in school and your future career with A MATHEMATICAL VIEW OF OUR WORLD. This liberal arts textbook helps you see the beauty and power of mathematics as it is applied to the world around you. You will recognize the connections, patterns, and significance of the mathematics you study, and see that mathematics has a meaningful place in your life. Included with your purchase is access to the CengageNOW, an online tutorial that allows you to work with real math notation in real time, with unlimited practice problems, instant analysis and feedback, and streaming video to illustrate key concepts and Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING a live, online mathematics tutor.

About this title

About the Author:

Harold Parks is Professor of Mathematics at Oregon State University. Dr. Parks won the 2003-2004 University Honors College Outstanding Professor award from the Honors College at Oregon State University. He is the coauthor of four books: "A Primer of Real Analytic Functions" (Birkhauser; first edition, 1992; second edition, 2002), "The Implicit Function Theorem: History, Theory, and Applications" (Birkhauser, 2002), "Mathematics in Life, Society, and the World" (Prentice Hall; first edition, 1997; second edition, 2000), and "The Geometry of Domains in Space" (Birkhauser, 1999). Harold has published over 25 papers in many journals, including AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY, JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS, SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS JOURNAL ON SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING, JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS, WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING, CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, and AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0495010618
• ISBN 13: 9780495010616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1000