College Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences and Social Sciences (10th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Raymond A. Barnett, Michael R. Ziegler, Karl E. Byleen
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 10
Pages: 1314
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Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 0131432095
Dewey Decimal Number: 510
EAN: 9780131432093
Publication Date: July 4, 2004
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Product Description
Designed to be accessible, this book develops a thorough, functional understanding of mathematical concepts in preparation for their application in other areas. Coverage concentrates on developing concepts and ideas followed immediately by developing computational skills and problem solving. This book features a collection of important topics from mathematics of finance, linear algebra, linear programming, probability, and statistics, with an emphasis on cross-discipline principles and practices. For the professional who wants to acquire essential mathematical tools for application in business, economics, and the life and social sciences.
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 Do you like the Matrix?? August 18, 2002
Tyrell Stewart (Internet)
4 out of 14 found this review helpful
Did you like The Matrix? If you did you will love this book, it is filled with Matricies (the plural version of matrix). So buying this book is like having all three of the Matrix movies at once. All the excitement and all of knowledge, with this book you are "The One" and will never have to wonder what the Matrix is again. If you don't like the Matrix maybe you have wondered what the answer to f(x,y)= 4x + 5y - 6 is. Well I'm not going to ruin the ending of the book for you but the answer can be found in the back of this book(pg. A-90). Oh the suspense!!! Either way this book is a great read and if you are taking the class related to this book, you will never pass without it.
~Tyrell
Like a telephone book April 17, 2006
B. Greenfield (Oakland CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was very dissappointed in this math textbook. I purchased it full price from the university, because they didn't have any used copies, and regretted it. It's basically like a telephone book of math information. You look something up, there's a short entry, and then tons and tons of problems. It contains everything, but the writing style is very dense, like they are trying to cram everything in. Its supposedly for applications oriented work, but I actually find more "theoretical" textbooks to have better and more well-described applications. A lot of the applications are just problems to solve that I question the real world relevance of. Bottom line, if you take a class that requires this book, I'd try to get a used copy or share a copy with some classmates, xerox the problem sets required for your homeworks, and get some other calculus textbooks to study from (one that I think is very interesting, if underutilized, is "Calculus In Context". Also take good notes in class and make sure you know the topics that are covered, so you can learn them somewhere else. Finally, unlike the previous reviewer, I do not hope the authors get cancer, but I do hope universities start carrying other textbooks instead of this one.
 OUCH! October 2, 2004
R. K. Kragnes (Rochester, MN)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
It assumes that you know a lot about math already so it does _not_ contain step by step. Mostly it just says "Here, this is the problem and this is the answer". How you get from point 'A' to point 'B' is a total mystery.
Bottom line, if the instructor had known that the book was this bad, he would have changed it to something better so that we could actually go through more stuff then we did.
Poorly Written Piece May 6, 2004
6 out of 17 found this review helpful
It's simply a bad math text. I hope the authors get cancer.
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