Essential Discrete Math for Computer Science | 
 enlarge | Authors: Todd Feil, Joan Krone
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $60.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 897720
Media: Paperback
Pages: 216
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0130186619
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.0151
EAN: 9780130186614
Publication Date: November 24, 2002
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Product Description
This book introduces readers to the mathematics of computer science and prepares them for the math they will encounter in other college courses. It includes applications that are specific to computer science, helps learners to develop reasoning skills, and provides the fundamental mathematics necessary for computer scientists. Chapter topics include sets, functions and relations, Boolean algebra, natural numbers and induction, number theory, recursion, solving recurrences, counting, matrices, and graphs. For computer scientists and the enhancement of programming skills.
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This book sucks November 10, 2005
A. Ruiz (San Francisco, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are a math professor, considering using this book for a discrete math class, please, spare your students the misery and the money. My professor, with good intentions, assigned this book because it is cheeper than a traditional text book (still extremely expensive considering the book is very short and does not go into detail.) Most students in the class ended up buying an additional discrete mathematics textbook to supplement this one because this book did not explain most of the concepts in enough detail. I am studying for a test right now and the book is not helping me at all, especially since for a comprehensive discrete math course, my professor had to include in his lecture a lot of content not mentioned in this book.
Also, there was no CS prerequirement for this course, so the content of this book that deals with computer programing is off limits for the class and irrelevent and impossible to understand for me, a student with no background in computer science.
I would have prefered to spend the additional 40-60$ of the bat for a comprehensive well written discrete mathematics book, rather than waste $40-$50 on this one and have to spend $100 on another textbook to supplement the content.
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