Excursions in Modern Mathematics
Fourth Edition

by Peter Tannenbaum and Robert Arnold
California State University, Fresno

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Select a chapter: 1: The Mathematics of Voting: The Paradoxes of Democracy 2: Weighted Voting Systems: The Power Game 3: Fair Division: The Slice Is Right 4: The Mathematics of Apportionment: Making the Rounds 5: Euler Circuits: The Circuit Comes to Town 6: The Traveling-Salesman Problem: Hamilton Joins the Circuit 7: The Mathematics of Networks: Connections! 8: The Mathematics of Scheduling: Directed Graphs and Critical Paths 9: Spiral Growth in Nature: Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio 10: The Mathematics of Population Growth: There Is Strength in Numbers 11: Symmetry: Mirror, Mirror, off the Wall... 12: Fractal Geometry: Fractally Speaking 13: Collecting Statistical Data: Censuses, Surveys, and Studies 14: Descriptive Statistics: Graphing and Summarizing Data 15: Chances, Probability, and Odds: Measuring Uncertainty 16: Normal Distributions: Everything Is Back to Normal (Almost)