Introduction to finite mathematics

✍ Scribed by John G. Kemeny

• Book ID: 127425010
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Edition: 3d ed
• Category: Library
• City: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
• ISBN: 0134838343
• ASIN: B000O030DK

✦ Synopsis

From game theory to the Gambler's ruin this book has classical mathematics well explained. The section on permutations and multinomials is still a valuable reference after all these years! But it is the application of permutation groups to island marriage laws that make this book a mathematical classic! How close a relative can you marry without endangering the gene pool while maximizing the number of people in your tribe that you can marry... a practical problem set to a primitive culture produced mathematical solutions!