Using & understanding mathematics : a quantitative reasoning approach /
Using and understanding mathematics
Jeffrey Bennett, William Briggs.
- 5th ed.
- Boston : Addison Wesley, c2011.
- xix, 676, [47] p. : ill (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Includes indexes.
Thinking critically -- Approaches to problem solving -- Numbers in the real world -- Managing money -- Statistical reasoning -- Putting statistics to work -- Probability : living with the odds -- Exponential astonishment -- Modeling our world -- Modeling with geometry -- Mathematics and the arts -- Mathematics and politics.