For courses in Liberal Arts Mathematics.
Math: applicable, accessible, modern
Excursions in Modern Mathematics introduces non-majors to the power and beauty of math. By developing an appreciation for the aesthetics and applicability of mathematics, students who previously felt math was an "unknowable" subject can approach it with a new perspective. Contemporary topics ranging from elections, to networks, to analyzing data show students that math is an accessible tool that can be applicable and interesting for anyone. Refinement and updating of examples and exercises, plus increased resources for students and instructors, makes the 10th Edition a relevant, accessible, and complete program.
About the Author: About our author Peter Tannenbaum is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the California State University, Fresno. He has also held faculty positions at the Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela, the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, and as a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Universidad de San Luis in San Luis, Argentina.
Professor Tannenbaum received Bachelor's degrees in Political Science and Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics, all from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His mathematical research interests focus primarily in the interface between combinatorics, finite groups and probability, and he has published papers in combinatorial designs, finite projective geometries, partitions of groups, probability, generating functions and the computation of power indexes.
Professor Tannenbaum has also worked on various aspects of mathematics education, including curriculum development for undergraduate general education mathematics, the preparation of secondary teachers, and Young Scholar Institutes (summer camps for talented high school students). In recognition of this work he has received many grants and awards, including a Mathematical Association of America Award for "Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics."
Professor Tannenbaum was born in Genoa, Italy, and at the age of 4 his family moved to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he spent his formative years. Beyond mathematics, his interests and hobbies include travel, languages (he speaks 5), hiking, riding (bikes and horses), cooking and most recently, painting. He and his wife Sally have 3 children (twin boys and a girl) and currently live in Santa Barbara, California.
