Discrete Mathematics With Applications 4th Pdf

Discrete Mathematics with Applications

Susanna Epp's DISCRETE MATHEMATICS, THIRD EDITION provides a clear introduction to discrete mathematics. Renowned for her lucid, accessible prose, Epp explains complex, abstract concepts with clarity and precision. This book presents not only the major themes of discrete mathematics, but also the reasoning that underlies mathematical thought. Students develop the ability to think abstractly as they study the ideas of logic and proof. While learning about such concepts as logic circuits and computer addition, algorithm analysis, recursive thinking, computability, automata, cryptography, and combinatorics, students discover that the ideas of discrete mathematics underlie and are essential to the science and technology of the computer age. Overall, Epp's emphasis on reasoning provides students with a strong foundation for computer science and upper-level mathematics courses.

Mathematics

Computer Science

Textbooks

Nonfiction

928 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

320 reviews 34 followers

October 29, 2014

By itself, I think this book is lacking something. However, when read in parallel with Rosen's book (I know, two discrete math books simultaneously is a recipe for insanity) it shows it's true value. Epp explains some things very well but at the end of the day she's a math guru, and as with almost all math gurus I've encountered, she has difficulty packaging complex subjects into digestible, teachable chunks. She's better than Rosen, I'll give her that.

It's unfortunate that the selection of textbooks is so limited in this field. Every instructor that I've had for DM explains the subject better than textbook authors by a wide mile, but writing 1,000 pages on DM is probably too daunting a task for them so their wisdom is never documented. Instead, we keep turning to Rosen and Epp.

Oh well, it's only a class.

75 reviews

Edited March 9, 2016

This is literally the best beginners book on discrete math you can find. I have looked into dozens of different materials and this one is proved to be the best. Very detailed and intuitive explanations, 2000+ exercises with answers in total. This is THE book on Discrete Mathematics!

english

14 reviews 9 followers

Edited December 22, 2018

Good book for self learners.

math

Edited March 8, 2015

Clear and concise, few textual errors (in the latest edition) for a book of this size. Decent exercises. Would recommend as a relatively breezy introduction to proof-writing and select topics (logic, graph theory, etc.), potentially a good supplement for more rigorous or challenging texts.

March 4, 2021

Comprehensive guide to discrete mathematics.

Edited June 10, 2019

I don't read too many textbooks that are actual textbooks, but this was a necessary read as I could not quite understand my professor's instructions. I actually read this one and made a wonderful grade in my graduate course because of it. I found some concepts and problems to be too simple and other too complex for what I read in the chapter. I'm very glad that the author made this readable as there are some mathematics textbooks, specifically one of calculus textbooks, that make it challenging on students to really understand the material.

September 15, 2021

This book is too wordy and not rigorous. The author fills pages by explaining basic subjects that need only a paragraph or two. It's like written for IQ 80 or less.

The entire content of this 1000 pages book can fit nicely under 300 pages.
I am new to discrete math, and I read half of this book in 2 days!

It's a shame that many classes use this book. It seems a strong relationship happened between teachers and publishers.

August 12, 2008

As a teacher I would love this book because of its tome-like nature, but as a student I found it a bit annoying to only cover 10% of the book for spending 50 bucks. There are books that teach proof techniques much more efficiently and cover only what is important and reasonable for one semester. Also...this is called discrete MATH not computer science!! I want math problems not how to write an algorithm.

13 reviews

Edited December 18, 2015

I've been reading and doing problem sets from this book for about 6 weeks now as part of a foundation course for a grad school program. I don't have much experience w/ this level of math but I find this book very interesting. Some things can be unnecessarily complicated. I was sometimes confused by similiar names to describe different variables within a problem. Why not just use very distinct names?

academics

18 reviews 2 followers

February 29, 2016

Some may think it strange to give a text book 5 stars, but this book is brilliant. I read it over the break cover to cover. If you are studying programming and computer science, this book is invaluable. The author's writing style is so clear and careful. She seems genuinely interested in helping and inspiring students.

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