This expanded sixth edition of the Angel/Porter text contains two additional chapters, "Graph Theory" and "Voting and Apportionment". This best-selling text balances solid mathematical coverage with a comprehensive overview of mathematical ideas as they relate to varied disciplines. This text provides an appreciation of mathematics, highlighting mathematical history, applications of mathematics to the arts and sciences across cultures and introduces students to the uses of technology in mathematics. It is an ideal book for students who require a general overview of mathematics, especially those majoring in the liberal arts, elementary education, the social sciences, business, nursing and allied health fields.
This course was fine, but I can't really bring myself to give a math textbook a higher rating than 1 star. I only took this course and read this book because it is required for my to obtain my Psychology degree so I can become a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor. Much of the math in this book was impractical and unnecessary for the average person.
Used this book for my Discrete Mathematics class. I will keep this book around. Students are always saying that will never use math after high school. This book has many problems which students could use in real-life situations.
This is a math book so it is not exactly exciting reading. There are some interesting facts, but not enough to overcome the fact that this is a math book.