Brown Mathematics for the Liberal Arts

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4665-9358-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten

Students See How Far a Little Math Can Take Them in Their Daily Lives

Mathematics for the Liberal Arts teaches everyday mathematics topics to non-math majors at the undergraduate level. Through numerous examples and more than 600 exercises, students learn how to use math seamlessly in a variety of practical areas, from conversion factors, statistics, visualization, money, and risk to games, art, music, and humor.

The text develops a logical, real-world approach to data and reasoning, showing students how to:

- Think both analytically and visually about data

- Use graphics to make a point

- Make sound monetary and nonmonetary decisions

- Evaluate risk taking

- Strategize to win at games

- Appreciate more fully art, music, and humor

Going beyond mere numerics and calculations, this textbook helps students become life-long learners exceeding the confines of a course. They will find that with a little more math, their daily lives will be more productive, understandable, and creative.

Web Resource
The author’s website provides a number of additional examples, including musical ones. It also offers one-of-a-kind software programs for the art and music material in the book.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate students taking a one-semester math for liberal arts course.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Jason I.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Populäre Darstellungen der Mathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Math in Your Life
Health, Safety, and Mathematics
Found in Translation
The Essentials of Conversion

Making Sense of Your World with Statistics
Summarizing Data with a Few Good Numbers
Estimating Unknowns
Leading You Down the Garden Path with Statistics

Visualizing with Mathematics
Seeing Data
A Graph Is Worth a Thousand Words

Money and Risk
Money — Now or Later
Risk Taking and Probability

The Life in Your Math!
Deciding to Make the Best Decisions
Making the Right Choices for You
Game Theory — Coming Out on Top
Making Joint Decisions

Art Imitating Math
The Math that Makes the Art
Believing What You See (or Not)

The Mathematics of Sound (and the Sound of Mathematics)
The Mathematics of Listening
The Mathematics of Composing
Solving Musical Mysteries with MSI (Math Scene Investigations)

Late Night Mathematics — Humor and Philosophy
Laughing with Mathematics
The Limits of Mathematics

Bibliography

Index

Review questions appear at the end of each chapter.