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Mathematics For Liberal Arts (Ma301), Lecture Notes, Lyubomir I. Boyadzhiev

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These lecture notes are designed to provide the students majoring in the liberal arts with an understanding and appreciation of mathematics as a lively, interesting, and surprisingly rich human activity with many fascinating applications. The text, emphasizing strongly intuitive thinking and visualization, is a collection of topics chosen to show the open-minded readers that:

• The connection between the mathematics presented in the course and down-to-earth, concrete real-life problems is transparent and immediate.
• Modern mathematical discoveries do not have to be the exclusive province of professional mathematicians.
• There is an important aesthetic component in mathematics, and just as in art and …