📚 Math in Society
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8.1 Introduction

Populations of people, animals, and items are growing all around us. By understanding how things grow, we can better understand what to expect in the future. In this chapter, we focus on time-dependant change.

Adapted from Math in Society by David Lippman, hosted on LibreTexts (math.libretexts.org) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Changes were made. License: CC-BY-SA-3.0.

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