This fourth edition continues to improve on the features that have made it the market leader. The text offers a flexible organization, enabling instructors to adapt the book to their particular courses: discrete mathematics, graph theory, modern algebra, and/or combinatorics. More elementary problems were added, creating a greater variety of level in problem sets, which allows students to perfect skills as they practice. This new edition continues to feature numerous computer science applications-making this the ideal text for preparing students for advanced study.
This volume contains over 1700 exercises and is a comprehensive introduction to discrete and combinatorial mathematics. In this, the third edition, there is enhanced coverage of logical implication, rules of inference, quantifiers, writing proofs and recursive definitions.