Mathematics : A Practical Odyssey (4 Rev ed)

This text is intended for use in a liberal arts mathematics course.

The book emphasizes the practical applications as well as the history of mathematics, showing students that mathematics is relevant to their education and to human history and culture.

The authors demonstrate how learning the algebraic concepts presented in the book allows students to understand more about logic, probability, statistics, finance, geometry, matrices, logarithms, calculus, and many other topics.