Mathematics: A Practical Odyssey - Hardcover

Johnson, David B.; Mowry, Thomas A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534378919 ISBN 13: 9780534378912

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2000

Synopsis

Emphasizing the practical applications and the history of mathematics, MATHEMATICS: A PRACTICAL ODYSSEY illustrates to students how mathematics is relevant to their education, human history, and culture. Johnson and Mowry effectively demonstrate how learning the algebraic concepts presented allows students to understand more about logic, probability, statistics, finance, geometry, matrices, logarithms, calculus, and many other topics.

About this title

About the Author:

David Johnson earned a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology (with an emphasis on Learning Theory), from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a Master's degree in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. After several years working as an academic counselor at Berkeley, he became a Professor of Mathematics at Diablo Valley College (DVC). He has taught DVC's liberal arts math course regularly for about 25 years, using Mathematics a Practical Odyssey. Other favorite courses include Intermediate Algebra, all three semesters of Calculus, and Differential Equations.

Review:

"Exercises in the text...provide the students with the opportunity to develop skills and conceptual understanding."

"The three greatest strengths are: 'variety of exercises,' 'current/relevant examples,' and 'variety of topics to chose from.'"

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0534378919
• ISBN 13: 9780534378912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 864