This text includes a history of math and covers logic, computing, finance, and geometry. The numerous exercise and problem sets, including writing exercises, provide non-majors with a thorough foundation of mathematics. Optional Road Maps, included in the preface, provide different ways to organize chapter topics in a coherent fashion, and ideas and goals for various approaches to teaching the course. (This information is expanded upon in the Instructor's Manual.)
- ISBN10 0314095764
- ISBN13 9780314095763
- Publish Date 5 February 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Brooks/Cole
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 623
- Language English