By Ignacio Bello
Written for the mathematics for Liberal Arts direction, issues in modern arithmetic is helping scholars see math at paintings on the earth by way of featuring challenge fixing in useful and significant contexts. a number of the difficulties within the textual content reveal how math pertains to subjects--such as sociology, psychology, enterprise, and technology--that commonly curiosity scholars.
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