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Jason Brown has managed to tie mathematics with everyday topics and ideas for the liberal arts major. This book has fun and understandable subjects with mathematics. The non-math major will enjoy subjects, such as traveling, music, politics, and a host of other interesting examples. Liberal arts majors will finally see how mathematics works in everyone's day to day life. -Jennifer Powers, Michigan State University

This book provides its readers-citizens-with tools to understand and evaluate how mathematics intervenes in virtually every area of modern life. Modern vignettes motivate the exposition of the mathematics underlying such issues as ensuring safety, controlling risk, decision making, and recreations and appreciating art. Particularly notable are the sections on games and popular music that reflect the author's own pleasure in the subject. -Ed Barbeau, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Toronto Jason Brown has created a unique textbook aimed at providing students in non-quantitative majors with both an appreciation for the ubiquity of mathematics in their lives and some practical skills that can enhance those lives. Respecting the fact that many liberal arts students enjoy reading, Brown has constructed seven chapters, each of which stands alone as a mathematically themed story. To add some drama, any chapter opens with a description of some real-life situation designed to intrigue the reader and motivate development of some particular mathematical tools. The chapter ends with a conclusion to the initial real-life situation using the mathematics of the chapter. This text will be best used by highly engaged instructors who can pick and choose chapters for their course selected to match the strengths and interests of their students as well as their own. Each chapter includes extensive exercise sets to help keep the students fully involved. -Keith Taylor, Dalhousie University Jason Brown has managed to tie mathematics with everyday topics and ideas for the liberal arts major. This book has fun and understandable subjects with mathematics. The non-math major will enjoy subjects, such as traveling, music, politics, and a host of other interesting examples. Liberal arts majors will finally see how mathematics works in everyone's day to day life. -Jennifer Powers, Michigan State University

This is a charming book that covers a unique set of topics. The tone is refreshing and should be inviting for readers of all levels. The beginning reads like a novel, and the stories the author relates that illustrate various uses and misuses of mathematics in the real world are fascinating. What really sets this book apart from other books designed for liberal arts students is the deep and varied discussion of mathematics and music. This stems from the author's significant expertise in this area and his own experience as a guitarist. This material and the treatment of art, game theory, data analysis, and philosophy will make this a popular text. -Gary Gordon, Lafayette University This book provides its readers with tools to understand and evaluate how mathematics intervenes in virtually every area of modern life. Modern vignettes motivate the exposition of the mathematics underlying such issues as ensuring safety, controlling risk, decision making, and recreations and appreciating art. Particularly notable are the sections on games and popular music that reflect the author's own pleasure in the subject. -Ed Barbeau, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Toronto Jason Brown has created a unique textbook aimed at providing students in non-quantitative majors with both an appreciation for the ubiquity of mathematics in their lives and some practical skills that can enhance those lives. Respecting the fact that many liberal arts students enjoy reading, Brown has constructed seven chapters, each of which stands alone as a mathematically themed story. To add some drama, any chapter opens with a description of some real-life situation designed to intrigue the reader and motivate development of some particular mathematical tools. The chapter ends with a conclusion to the initial real-life situation using the mathematics of the chapter. This text will be best used by highly engaged instructors who can pick and choose chapters for their course selected to match the strengths and interests of their students as well as their own. Each chapter includes extensive exercise sets to help keep the students fully involved. -Keith Taylor, Dalhousie University Jason Brown has managed to tie mathematics with everyday topics and ideas for the liberal arts major. This book has fun and understandable subjects with mathematics. The non-math major will enjoy subjects, such as traveling, music, politics, and a host of other interesting examples. Liberal arts majors will finally see how mathematics works in everyone's day to day life. -Jennifer Powers, Michigan State University

Jason Brown has created a unique textbook aimed at providing students in non-quantitative majors with both an appreciation for the ubiquity of mathematics in their lives and some practical skills that can enhance those lives. Respecting the fact that many liberal arts students enjoy reading, Brown has constructed seven chapters, each of which stands alone as a mathematically themed story. To add some drama, any chapter opens with a description of some real-life situation designed to intrigue the reader and motivate development of some particular mathematical tools. The chapter ends with a conclusion to the initial real-life situation using the mathematics of the chapter. This text will be best used by highly engaged instructors who can pick and choose chapters for their course selected to match the strengths and interests of their students as well as their own. Each chapter includes extensive exercise sets to help keep the students fully involved. -Keith Taylor, Dalhousie University Jason Brown has managed to tie mathematics with everyday topics and ideas for the liberal arts major. This book has fun and understandable subjects with mathematics. The non-math major will enjoy subjects, such as traveling, music, politics, and a host of other interesting examples. Liberal arts majors will finally see how mathematics works in everyone's day to day life. -Jennifer Powers, Michigan State University

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