Acclaimed for accuracy and readability, FINITE MATHEMATICS appeals to, and is appropriate for, all types of teaching and learning styles. The optional accompanying WebAssign course, and the author website at wanermath.com provide complete support for a wide range of course formats ?C from traditional lectures and hybrid courses to strictly online courses. Resources include the new lecture videos available in WebAssign. At the wanermath.com author website, the authors have developed online "game mode" tutorials, interactive chapter summaries, and a semester-long mathematics game.

About the Authors

Stefan Waner and Steven R. Costenoble both received their Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, having studied several years apart with the same advisor, J. Peter May. Their paths merged when Steven joined Stefan at Hofstra University in 1987; since then they have coauthored 18 research papers as well as a research-level monograph in algebraic topology. By the early 1990s they had become dissatisfied with many of the Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus textbooks. They wanted textbooks that were more readable and relevant to students' interests, containing examples and exercises that were interesting, and reflected the interactive approaches and techniques they found worked well with their own students. It therefore seemed natural to extend their research collaboration to a joint textbook writing project that expressed these ideals. To this day, they continue to work together on their textbook projects, their research in algebraic topology, and their teaching.

CONTENTS

Chapter 0 Precalculus Review 1
Chapter 1 Functions and Applications 45
Chapter 2 The Mathematics of Finance 133
Chapter 3 Systems of Linear Equations and Matrices 189
Chapter 4 Matrix Algebra and Applications 253
Chapter 5 Linear Programming 337
Chapter 6 Sets and Counting 427
Chapter 7 Probability 479
Chapter 8 Random Variables and