Mathematics with applications for the management, life, and social sciences / (Record no. 7163)
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| fixed length control field | 03544cam a2200193 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0155552376 |
| 050 00 - CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QA37.2 |
| Item number | .A57 1988 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR | |
| Personal name | Anton, Howard. |
| 245 10 - TITLE | |
| Title | Mathematics with applications for the management, life, and social sciences / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Howard Anton, Bernard Kolman, Bonnie Averbach ; with the assistance of Charles G. Denlinger. |
| 250 ## - EDITION | |
| Edition statement | 3rd ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION INFORMATION | |
| Place of publication | San Diego : |
| Name of publisher | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, |
| Year of publication | c1988. |
| 300 ## - DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | vii, 1029 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. (some col.) ; |
| Dimensions | 25 cm. |
| 500 ## - NOTES | |
| General note | Includes index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Table of Content | Front Cover; Mathematics with Applications for the Management, Life, and Social Sciences; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; NEW FEATURES IN THE SECOND EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER ONE. SET THEORY; 1.1 INTRODUCTION TO SETS; 1.2 UNION AND INTERSECTION OF SETS; 1.3 COMPLEMENTATION AND CARTESIAN PRODUCT OF SETS; KEY IDEAS FOR REVIEW; CHAPTER TWO. COORDINATE SYSTEMS AND GRAPHS; 2.1 COORDINATE SYSTEMS; 2.2 THE STRAIGHT LINE; 2.3 LINEAR SYSTEMS OF TWO EQUATIONS IN TWO UNKNOWNS; 2.4 APPLICATIONS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS; 2.5 LINEAR INEQUALITIES AND THEIR GRAPHS; KEY IDEAS FOR REVIEW. CHAPTER THREE. LINEAR PROGRAMMING (A GEOMETRIC APPROACH)3.1 WHAT IS LINEAR PROGRAMMING?; 3.2 SOLVING LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS GEOMETRICALLY; KEY IDEAS FOR REVIEW; CHAPTER FOUR. MATRICES AND LINEAR SYSTEMS; 4.1 LINEAR SYSTEMS; 4.2 GAUSS-JORDAN ELIMINATION; 4.3 MATRICES; MATRIX ADDITION AND SCALAR MULTIPLICATION; 4.4 MATRIX MULTIPLICATION; 4.5 INVERSE OF MATRICES; KEY IDEAS FOR REVIEW; CHAPTER FIVE. LINEAR PROGRAMMING (AN ALGEBRAIC APPROACH); 5.1 INTRODUCTION; SLACK VARIABLES; 5.2 THE KEY IDEAS OF THE SIMPLEX METHOD; 5.3 THE SIMPLEX METHOD; 5.4 NONSTANDARD LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS. DUALITY (OPTIONAL)KEY IDEAS FOR REVIEW; CHAPTER SIX. COUNTING TECHNIQUES; PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS; 6.1 COUNTING ELEMENTS IN SETS; 6.2 PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS; KEY IDEAS FOR REVIEW; CHAPTER SEVEN. PROBABILITY; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; SAMPLE SPACE AND EVENTS; 7.2 PROBABILITY MODELS FOR FINITE SAMPLE SPACES; 7.3 BASIC THEOREMS OF PROBABILITY; 7.4 SOLVING PROBABILITY PROBLEMS; 7.5 CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY; INDEPENDENCE; 7.6 BAYES' FORMULA (OPTIONAL); KEY IDEAS FOR REVIEW; CHAPTER EIGHT. STATISTICS; 8.1 INTRODUCTION; RANDOM VARIABLES; 8.2 EXPECTED VALUE OF A RANDOM VARIABLE. 8.3 VARIANCE OF A RANDOM VARIABLE8.4 CHEBYSHEV'S INEQUALITY; APPLICATIONS OF MEAN AND VARIANCE (OPTIONAL); 8.5 BINOMIAL RANDOM VARIABLES; 8.6 THE NORMAL APPROXIMATION TO THE BINOMIAL; 8.7 HYPOTHESIS TESTING; THE CHI-SQUARE TEST; KEY IDEAS FOR REVIEW; CHAPTER NINE. APPLICATIONS; 9.1 APPLICATIONS OF PROBABILITY AND EXPECTED VALUE TO LIFE INSURANCE AND MORTALITY; 9.2 INTRODUCTION TO GAME THEORY AND APPLICATIONS; 9.3 GAMES WITH MIXED STRATEGIES; 9.4 AN APPLICATION OF PROBABILITY TO GENETICS; THE HARDY-WEINBERG STABILITY PRINCIPLE. 9.5 AN APPLICATION OF CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY TO MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS9.6 MARKOV CHAINS AND APPLICATIONS; KEY IDEAS FOR REVIEW; CHAPTER 10. MATHEMATICS OF FINANCE; 10.1 SIMPLE AND COMPOUND INTEREST; 10.2 EFFECTIVE RATE OF INTEREST; SIMPLE DISCOUNT; 10.3 ANNUITIES AND SINKING FUNDS; 10.4 PRESENT VALUE; 10.5 MORTGAGES AND AMORTIZATION SCHEDULES ; KEY IDEAS FOR REVIEW; CHAPTER 11. FUNCTIONS, LIMITS, AND RATES OF CHANGE; 11.1 INTRODUCTION; 11.2 FUNCTIONS; 11.3 LIMITS; 11.4 CONTINUITY; 11.6 AVERAGE AND INSTANTANEOUS RATE OF CHANGE; KEY IDEAS FOR REVIEW; CHAPTER 12. THE DERIVATIVE; 12.1 THE DERIVATIVE. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECTS | |
| Topical Term | Mathematics. |
| 700 1# - OTHER AUTHORS | |
| Personal name | Kolman, Bernard, |
| 700 1# - OTHER AUTHORS | |
| Personal name | Averbach, Bonnie, |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | Methodist University Library Main | Methodist University Library Main | General Stacks | 21/01/2020 | QA37.2 .A57 1988 | 14522 | Books |