A Beginner's Guide To Finite Mathematics

Finite Mathematics is a very broad and heterogeneous area of mathematics, studying finite sets and configurations, with certain properties, their characterisation and in number. It is related to almost all other areas of mathematics and it also has a wide range of applications. Modern high-speed computers have made all forms of computation vastly in an easy form. In past, while the calculations used to take several days to complete, these can now be carried out in a few seconds, with the help of computers. The availability of modern computers can take a great deal of dudgery, out of mathematical computations and makes possible large-scale computations that would have been impossible, otherwise. It is an area of mathematics that studies the properties of structures of a finite nature that arise in mathematics and its applications. Finite mathematics represents an important trend in mathematics. It is possible to single out its typical subject of study, methods, and problems, whose nature is largely determined by the necessity, characteristic of finite mathematics, for rejecting the fundamental concepts of classical mathematics-limit and continuity-and by the fact that the powerful methods of classical mathematics as a rule prove to be of little use in many problems of finite mathematics. The present book is a useful resource for the students and teachers of the concerned field. Contents: Introduction; Rational Function; Variants and Generalizations; Linear Programming; Mathematical Treatment; Standard Deviation.

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