In the fall of 1977, when I was a couple of years out of college, I received an unexpected call from a friend, Dick Riley. He'd just landed a new job at a small publisher called Frederick Ungar, as the editor of a series of short critical monographs on detective and science-fiction writers. He was looking for authors, and as he knew I was fond of science fiction, he thought of me. Would I write a book about Frank Herbert, he wanted to know.
Chapters: Compound Statements,
Sets and counting problems,
Probability theory,
Vectors and matrices,
Computer programming,
Statistics,
Linear programming and the theory of games,
Applications to the behavioral and managerial sciences
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