Brief contents

• Preface XV
• Part I MANAGEMENT SCIENCE    2
  • Chapter 1   Urban Services 5
  • Chapter 2   Business Efficiency 39
  • Chapter 3   Planning and Scheduling 81
  • Chapter 4   Linear Programming and the Transportation Problem 125

• Part II STATISTICS: THE SCIENCE OF DATA    178
  • Chapter 5   Exploring Data: Distributions 181
  • Chapter 6   Exploring Data: Relationships 241
  • Chapter 7   Data for Decisions 291
  • Chapter 8   Probability: The Mathematics of Chance 341

• Part III VOTING AND SOCIAL CHOICE    402
  • Chapter 9   Social Choice: The Impossible Dream 405
  • Chapter 10   The Manipulability of Voting Systems 439
  • Chapter 11   Weighted Voting Systems 461
  • Chapter 12   Electing the President 503

• Part IV FAIRNESS AND GAME THEORY    536
  • Chapter 13   Fair Division 539
  • Chapter 14   Apportionment 571
  • Chapter 15   Game Theory: The Mathematics of Competition 621

• Part V THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION       666
  • Chapter 16   Identification Numbers 669
  • Chapter 17   Encoding Information 699

• Part VI ON SIZE AND GROWTH    734
  • Chapter 18   Growth and Form 737
  • Chapter 19   Symmetry and Pattern 779
  • Chapter 20   Tilings 827

• Part VII YOUR MONEY AND RESOURCES    866
  • Chapter 21   Savings Models 869
  • Chapter 22   Borrowing Models 909
  • Chapter 23   The Economics of Resources 943