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เนื้อหาย่อ : Students in business and the social and biological sciences require a variety of mathematical tools for their studies. Applied Mathematics for the Management, Life, and Social Sciences provides many of these tools. Approximately two-thirds of the book (Chapters 1-8) covers material commonly gathered under the topic finite mathematics and can be covered in one semester or two quarters. The remain- ing five chapters provide an introduction to calculus. These last chapters can be covered in one quarter or one semester. Applied Mathematics for the Management, Life, and Social Sciences is an out- growth of two courses I have taught many times at the University of Montana: Mathematics for Business and Mathematics for the Biological Sciences. The pre- requisite for students in these courses is intermediate algebra, and that is the pre- requisite for this text. However, for those students who need to review some frequently used topics in algebra, I have provided an appendix that includes detailed discussions of polynomials, quadratic equations, and rational expressions. This supplements the preliminary material in Chapter 1. Some of the features of Applied Mathematics for the Management, Life, and Social Sciences are: Examples. As a student, I learned this material from seeing examples and doing exercises. There are 668 examples--many more than are commonly found in texts at this level. The examples include all the necessary steps so that students can see clearly how to get from ''A to B.'' In many instances, explanations are highlighted in color to make steps easier to follow. Exercises. The text includes more than 3700 exercises-both drill and applied problems. More difficult problems are marked with an asterisk (*), and a few especially difficult ones are marked with two (**). In my opinion, exercises provide the most important learning tool in any undergraduate mathematics textbook. I stress to my students that no matter how well they think they understand my lectures