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Discrete Mathematics: Mathematical Reasoning and Proof with Puzzles, Patterns, and Games

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This book is much less conventional than the other established texts for freshman or sophomore discrete math/computer science courses. It places more emphasis on math problem solving, and contains a wonderful selection of interesting and challenging problems based on puzzles and games.

My impression of reading through the book is the focus is more on establishing a solid foundation on mathematical reasoning; using discrete math puzzles and games as examples in achieving the goal. It also contains much less of boring computational/ algorithmic worked examples than regular texts. This makes the book immensely more useful for math enthusiats and high-school math competition contestants, in addition to its regular use in courses for math majors in universities. Computer science majors with a focus on algorithm and programming may feel the book has too much of a math-centric problem solving focus, and probably should look elsewhere.

Overall, a fascinating read; highly recommended.

It may be better in an actual classroom setting where an instructor can help students work through solutions, but it's not so good in the class I have that is using it. Trying to self-study from this book is not very productive at all.

This student solutions manual only includes the solutions that are already in the back of the book. Some of them give more explanation, but some of the confusing solutions only give the same answer as the textbook. It doesn't seem worth the expense if there isn't a lot to help me understand the process, how to solve problems.

I thought this book would have all the solutions, but it only has the EXACT same ones as the ones in the back of the book. This book is a rip off so don't buy it unless you want to waste your money. You are better off just reading through the book and Googleling the things you don't know online.

This purchase ran quite smoothly and very quickly. The only problem was that I received the wrong book. I believe this is no fault of the provider, as there are two books with the same name, just different ISBN numbers. I should have made sure the numbers matched prior to purchasing the book. I will know next time. The person I purchase this book from did an excellent job processing my request quickly and efficiently. Thank you so much! I would purchase in an instance from this provider again.