Math in Society
- ISBN-10
- 1479276537
- ISBN-13
- 9781479276530
- Category
- Electronic books
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-09-07
- Author
- David Lippman
Description
Math in Society is a survey of contemporary mathematical topics, appropriate for a college-level topics course for liberal arts major, or as a general quantitative reasoning course.This book is an open textbook; it can be read free online at http://www.opentextbookstore.com/mathinsociety/. Editable versions of the chapters are available as well.
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