- Hardcover: 928 pages
- Publisher: Brooks Cole; 3 edition (Dec 22 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0534359450
- ISBN-13: 978-0534359454
- Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 20.1 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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- #17 in Books > Science > Mathematics > Pure Mathematics > Discrete Mathematics
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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.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Passable At Best,
By A Customer
This review is from: Discrete Mathematics with Applications (Hardcover)
A minority of the topics are well covered and lucidly explained. However, the author buries some of the topics in excessively long introductory sections that add little to the student's understanding of the material. I fully appreciate long, detailed explanations, but they should be carefully crafted to enhance understanding. While this text does that well for some topics, others are quite poorly done, especially for students just being introduced to the material (the sections on proofs and recurrences, for example, could stand improvement).Another problem is that the examples in the introductory sections are far simpler than most of the end-of-section exercises, and students often have little guidance in other parts of the text, indicating how to approach the problems. Although a separate book, the student solutions manual and study guide is hardly deserving of that designation. It is an over-priced, poor excuse for a solutions manual, with very few of the text's problems solved. Furthermore, those that are solved do not include sufficient explanations of the reasoning behind the approach to the solutions. Very poor indeed. For any students taking a course for which this is a required text, I would strongly suggest reading "An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: Numbers, Sets and Functions" by Peter J. Eccles (ISBN 0521597188) to supplement the text and provide detailed, complete, lucid explanations. If at all possible, this should be done before beginning the course, but it is never too late to improve one's understanding.
5.0 out of 5 stars
well-written book w/ enough mathematical rigor,
By A Customer
This review is from: Discrete Mathematics with Applications (Hardcover)
This book is very accessible. Although the myriad examples and descriptions keep the main points hidden a few times, this book is great for self study--something to consider if you have a bad teacher.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Redundancies and Excessive Prose Detract from High Quality,
By William Kallfelz (Piedmont College; Demorest GA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Discrete Mathematics with Applications (Hardcover)
Suzanne Epp is an excellent writer and no one could accuse her of skimping on content. However there is such a thing as overkill. Certain sections badly need trimming and clarity: teaching from this book I spend a fair amount of time "boiling things down" to essential points which are often only implied or hidden among a proleration of examples. For example, entire sections are devoted to facets of predicate logic and arguments. This wouldn't prove redundant were it not for the fact that there is much duplication between the points mentioned in predicate logic and the points mentioned in propositional logic. I've seen less redundant and and more perspicuous presentations on logic in other texts. The homework problems for the large part seem a bit trivial. The reader again senses too much quantity of detail with little organizational clarity. Fewer and more substantive examples would prove helpful. The book seems ideal for a liberal arts college, there is plenty of text but much is mathematical style over substance. The reader, however, will at least be left with a clear conceptual understanding of salient topics in discrete math.
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