Mathematics, Mathematics

Mathematics All Around

Name: Mathematics All Around
Author: Tom Pirnot
ISBN: 9780321836991

by Tom Pirnot

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Overview

Pirnot’s Mathematics All Around offers the supportive and clear writing style that you need to develop your math skills. By helping to reduce your math anxiety, Pirnot helps you to understand the use of math in the world around you. You appreciate that the author’s approach is like the help you would receive during your own instructors’ office hours.

About the Author, Tom Pirnot

Tom Pirnot received his bachelor's degree in music from Wilkes College and his PhD in mathematics from The Pennsylvania State University. He taught both mathematics and computer science at Kutztown University for thirty eight years. He has long been an innovator in liberal arts mathematics, writing his first text Mathematics: Tools and Models with Dalton Hunkins in 1977 which introduced topics such as apportionment, graph theory, and modeling to liberal arts students. His current text, Mathematics All Around, is now in its fourth edition. Tom continues to enjoy the loving support and encouragement of his wife Ann, their four children, and three grandchildren.

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An applications-oriented mathematics text, for students majoring in the liberal arts, social science, and other nonscientific areas. Applications are designed to motivate students, involving areas such as set theory and Internet search engines, the use of data in presidential polls, and odds of winning a lottery. Pedagogical features emphasize problem solving. Coverage includes logic, graph theory, consumer mathematics, descriptive statistics, algebraic models, geometry, and matrices. There is a unique chapter on mathematics and voting methods. Pirnot is affiliated with Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)