The essential desk reference for every business professional or student.
This easy-to-understand resource explains complex mathematical concepts and formulas and offers clear examples of how they relate to real-world business situations. Featuring practical practice problems to help readers hone their skills, it covers such key topics as working with percents to calculate increases and decreases, using basic algebra to solve proportions, and using basic statistics to analyze raw data. Readers will also find solutions for finance and payroll applications, including reading financial statements, calculating wages and commissions, and strategic salary planning.
Each entry begins with a short summary statement about the test’s purpose, and contains details of the test objective, the limitations (or assumptions) involved, a brief outline of the method, a worked example, and the numerical calculation. 100 Statistical Tests, Third Edition is the one indispensable guide for users of statistical materials and consumers of statistical information at all levels and across all disciplines. is the one indispensable guide for users of statistical materials and consumers of statistical information at all levels and across all disciplines.
Russian-English/English-Russian Dictionary on Probability, Statistics, and Combinatorics
By K. A. Borovkov
Publisher: Society for Industrial Mathematics
Number Of Pages: 162
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
A to Z of Mathematicians contains the fascinating biographies of 150 mathematicians: men and women from a variety of cultures, time periods, and socioeconomic backgrounds, all of whom have substantially influenced the history of mathematics. Some made numerous discoveries during a lifetime of creative work; others made a single contribution.
The mathematical ideas are presented in simple terms that cut to the core of the matter.
After each entry, a short list of additional references for further reading is provided.
This is a delightful little tome for anyone who likes numbers,their significance and even a bit of mathematical curiosity thrown in.
There are many books around that deal with Numerology and particularly ones that use numbers and their associations to predict the future. The difference with this book is that it covers many more areas where numbers come into play.
It covers a lot of historical aspects and significience of numbers and many numbers that immediately bring to mind historical events, 1776 being an example.
It also touches on fields of Recreational Mathematics such as Magic Squares and even Magic Triangles.
There are even sections that deal with statistics for the Continents.
