Finite Mathematics (10th Edition)

I ordered it to prepare for teaching my new class. It has been a valuable tool so far. Plus my students have access (through our school’s book publishers) to the digital version of the 11edition of this book. Praise the Lord!!!

Finite Mathematics is an excellent book to learn about various of topics such as linear functions, systems of linear equations and matrices, linear programming through the graphical method and the simplex method, mathematics finance, logic, sets and probability, counting principles, statistics, Markov chains, and game theory.Not all of them are explored very deeply but enough to get one's feet wet. Initially, I did not know anything about the simplex method, Markov chains, and game theory before approaching Finite Mathematics. After solving every problems in these sections as well as in other sections, I feel very confident of my knowledge and appreciate the level of pedagogy by the authors. The treatment of every section per area has been very clear and lucid, enough to get one started on the practice problems without much worry.Perhaps the biggest benefit of working with Finite Mathematics is its solutions manual which is extremely well-explained for every odd problems (I was able to procure a pdf file of the other solutions manual online for the even problems). So, from cover to cover, I did everything, learned as much as I could, and found myself illuminated to move forward. Once in a while, there is a problem that is so stupidly hard and difficult that I won't worry about it. In other words, 99% of the problems in the book are quite doable because much of them are very connected within a section in a transitionary manner.My time, however long it was, spent with the book has been worth it. Although the applications provided by the authors have been rich and diverse, I have to complain one thing about the problems: there are too many of them that are overly redundant and show no difference among them. So, the authors need to tone down the number of such problems and increase the number of diverse problems.All in all, Finite Mathematics is the book to get if you really want to learn linear functions, systems of linear equations and matrices, linear programming through the graphical method and the simplex method, mathematics finance, logic, sets and probability, counting principles, statistics, Markov chains, and/or game theory at a very high pedagogical level.

This may be my fault. But I was under the impression that new math books came with a code for my math lab. Every other one that I have bought was this way. No code came with this one, and I bought it new just for that reason. I will now return it and get it used then buy a code.

This was exactly what I needed for my class and I love it even more since it was about a quarter of what it would have cost me on campus.

Very good coverage of the topics. But I would have started the book with Chapters 7, 8, and 9 since those concepts are a bit easier to grasp than the concepts covered in Chapters 2, 4, and 4.

I needed this for my class, came quickly and in great condition.decent text, it's pre calc after all, not too exciting haha.

The book is what I ordered and it was fine.I would recommend this book if any one asked me.

Got it for my math class.