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BL
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639016
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| Title & Author
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War stories from applied math : : undergraduate consultancy projects /\ edited by Robert Fraga.
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| Publication Statement
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[Washington, DC] :: Mathematical Association of America,, c2007.
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| Series Statement
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MAA notes ;; #71.
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vii, 147 p. :: ill. ;; 28 cm.
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| ISBN
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9780883851814
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: 0883851814
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| Notes
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Contributing authors provided updates to their transcripts which were originally presented at a workshop held in 1996 at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis.; also includes new content.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- An industrial mathematics program / George Corliss -- Source of problems : industrial contacts / Robert Borrelli -- Panel discussion following "Industrial contacts" -- Course integration / George Corliss -- The Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP) / Paul Campbell -- Program management / Martha Siegel -- Project deliverables I / Robert Borrelli -- Project deliverables II / Tom Davis -- Using projects from industry to teach mathematics and statistics to liberal arts majors / Daniel Maki -- Mathematical modeling in ICIC projects / Robert Fraga -- Appendix : a sample HMC report.
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| Abstract
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These projects are adaptations of transcripts made at a workship at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI in 1996. This workshop ... brought together four mathematicians ... representatives from industry, and an audience of mathematicans interested in trying out the ideas presented to them.
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Mathematics-- Study and teaching (Higher), Congresses.
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Project method in teaching, Congresses.
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Industrial management-- Mathematical models, Congresses.
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College student development programs, Congresses.
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| LC Classification
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QA20.P73W37 2007
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| Added Entry
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Fraga, Robert.
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