Discrete Mathematics: Numbers and Beyond (International Mathematics Series)

Barnett, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0201342928 / ISBN 13: 9780201342925

Published by Addison-Wesley, 1998

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Title: Discrete Mathematics: Numbers and Beyond (...

Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

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For the increasing number of students who need an understanding of the subject, Discrete Mathematics; Numbers and Beyond provides the perfect introduction. Aimed particularly at nonspecialists, its attractive style and practical approach offer easy access to this important field.

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For the increasing number of students who need an understanding of the subject, Discrete Mathematics: Numbers and Beyond provides the perfect introduction. Aimed particularly at non-specialists, its attractive style and practical approach offer easy access to this important subject.

With an emphasis on methods and applications rather than rigorous proofs, the book's coverage is based an the essential topics of numbers, counting and numerical processes. Discrete Mathematics: Numbers and Beyond supplies the reader with a thorough grounding in number systems, modular arithmetic, combinatorics, networks and graphs, coding theory and recurrence relations. Throughout the book, learning is aided and reinforced by the following features:

a wealth of exercises and problems of varying difficulty

a wide range of illustrative applications of general interest

numerous worked examples and diagrams

team-based student projects in every chapter

concise, informal explanations

tips for further reading

Discrete Mathematics: Numbers and Beyond is an ideal textbook for an introductory discrete mathematics course taken by students of economics, computer science, mathematics, business, finance, engineering and the sciences.
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