Books for MTH108

TEXTBOOK: "Mathematics Beyond the Numbers" by George T. Gilbert and Rhonda L. Hatcher, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0 471 13934-3

Suggested Reading:
"For All Practical Purposes" (sixth edition) by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, W.H. Freeman and Company, 2003, ISBN: 0 7167 4782-0 (hardcover), 0 7167 4783-9 (paperback).

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Suggested Web Sites:

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jgallian/fapp6/ - to caslculate check digits, driver's licence, ZIP codes, parity check sums
http://hotwired.lycos.com/ - latest news in information technologies and encryption schemes
http://www.nyise.org/blind/britbrl2.htm - describes the Braille writing system
http://www.howstuffworks.com/router.htm - describes how Internet routers work
http://www.howstuffworks.com/encryption1.htm - describes how data encryption works
http://www.www10.org/cdrom/papers/208/ - describes Internet crawling
http://www.spitzner.net/ - Internet applications
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/approvalvote/goodsoc.html -an article by Steven Brams on approval voting
http://www.math.temple.edu/~cow/bpi.html - to calculate the Banzhaf index
http://www.math.hmc.edu/~su/fairdivision/ - fair division
http://www.census.gov/ - U.S. Census Bureau

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