Student's Solutions Manual for Johnson/Mowry's Mathematics: A Practical Odyssey

by David B. Johnson, Thomas A. Mowry, Deann Christianson

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.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

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.