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List Price: $39.95 Price: $31.96 You Save: $7.99 (20%) "Great introductory maths textbook for CS students" - By Pavlos Peppas (Patras, Greece)
This is a great maths book for first year Computer Science undergraduates. It assembles in a single text most of the basic mathematical tools required in the study of Computer Science, ranging from sets and relations, to combinatorics and probabilities, to trees and logic.
Most importantly, the book is easy to follow even for someone who is not a great fan of mathematics; in fact, these are the people that will probably benefit most from this book. Concepts are presented very clearly, in a lively prose, with extra care in providing an intuitive grasp of formal notions, and attention in clarifying subtle details. This is further assisted by an on-going dialog spread throughout the book between two fictional characters, Alice and Mad Hatter (borrowed from Lewis Carroll's classical novel), discussing subtleties in the text. Carefully selected exercises in each chapter help to reinforce students understanding of the text.
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List Price: $89.99 Price: $61.61 You Save: $28.38 (32%) "You get out of it what you put into it." - By E. Borota (AZ)
I'm only on Chapter 3. It has been an outstanding two chapters and I wish I would've known about this book while in high school. All bored high school students intending to pursue a degree or career solving mathematical problems, buy this and enjoy a well presented account of real mathematics.
I recommend this book for (future) computer scientists, programmers or mathematicians. For computer scientists or programmers, this should be required reading; read it whether you like mathematics or not. If you can't work through this material and you label yourself a programmer or computer scientist, it's highly probable that you won't be or aren't a good one, and should look into another career.
Maybe some can breeze through this book and comprehend what they read. I am not one of them. This book has been slow going; the authors don't waste words. Pay attention to their definitions ... full review(63) -
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Price: $14.95 "Excellent introduction to Discrete Mathematics" - By Carlos Ordonez
I was misled by the low price thinking this would be a bad book. But I was Mathematics. The reason for which I bought this text book is because it has many proofs and in particular it includes the proofs of a couple of theorems I had been looking for. The presentation is formal but clear. The author includes plenty of excercises and answers are provided for odd numbered ones. So far I haven't found errors or typos. The book has enough material to be used in a two semester course sequence. I would give it a relations, total and partial orders, logic, combinatorics, regular languages, graphs, number theory, algorithm analysis and even NP-completeness. This book should be useful for both Math and CS students.(13) -
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List Price: $35.00 Price: $30.45 You Save: $4.55 (13%) "Great book to have on your desk." - By Stephen Redihan
I'm only partially through this text, so please bear that in mind. With its presentation of applications, many tangents of historical interest, and 'interactive code exercises I find this to be one of the better presentations on Linear Algebra and Computer Science.
It's been fun to compare Professor Klein's ideas along side Gilbert Strang's texts.
Also I must give a high five to Prof Klein and all parties for their effort to keep this book affordable! The book is well worth your time and money!(63) -
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List Price: $259.99 Price: $190.54 You Save: $69.45 (27%) "o m g" - By piers
i thought i can rush the first chapter because i think im know everything about basic math like summation etc. i was totally wrong it took me 3 days to skim through the first chapter now understand why ppl call this book bible
update: This book makes me doubt my 5 years' computer science education, the stuff I have learned before is like joke.(78) -
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List Price: $26.00 Price: $19.11 You Save: $6.89 (27%) "A cheap and good book" - By John Chung
The book is pretty much suitable for students who has finished high school maths but requires revision on maths for computing. A few chapters are simple enough for students to run over quickly. There is a supplementary questions and solved questions with working for student to understand and practice on. Overall the book is good enough to refresh your memory on computer maths.(10) -
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List Price: $32.95 Price: $27.74 You Save: $5.21 (16%) "Best Value for Texts in this Series and the ATP Subject Area in general" - By Let's Compare Options Preptorial (Worldwide)
Although available as a free download on the author's page, this wonderful Dover edition is well worth buying for the price given the comprehensive algorithms which are easier to fathom in print IMHO. By comparison, classics like Melvin Fitting's book (although advertised as a new edition is actually a reprint-- First-Order Logic and Automated Theorem Proving (Texts in Computer Science)) and others are now going for hundreds of dollars, whereas Gallier is just as complete while being more current than many of those titles, especially if you visit his page and download the other current research, which often includes code. Visit the wiki article also on automated theory proving for a list of free software agents (proof assistants) which only a few years ago required supercomputing but now can be simmed and run on a gaming level pc (as long as the problem/ proof you're playing with is polynomial rather ... full review(3) -
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List Price: $99.00 Price: $89.10 You Save: $9.90 (10%) "Thorough, Rigorous, Maybe not Best for Most Beginners" - By Monday Monkey (Dallas, TX USA)
I'm reviewing this for what it is: An academic text that also serves as a collective document of algorithms for the community (computer science, etc.). This is not a beginner text. It's a first-class algorithms book that is very academically rigorous. That's not a put-down.
Great reference and great read when you need to get out of the box and think creatively.
For a more approachable intro to algorithms, check out Sedgewick's book. That book also has a companion website and Coursera course. it's hard to go wrong with that combo.(575) -
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"Perfect book for all audiences that want to learn programming" - By Music City "Nan" (Tennessee)
I chose this rating because the text is easy to read and easy to understand. It cross-references the scratch tutorials online and offers formatted practices for new students of programming.
I bought the book after working at a booth at a statewide library association conference where "Learn to Program with Scratch" was on display.. The response to the book and publisher by dozens of librarians was impressive. One youth librarian bought the only sample copy available to support the Scratch Camp he offers every summer at the public library where he is on staff. I gave the book to my grandson (age 11) as a gift and watched him work through the first few sections. "Learn to Program With Scratch" is an excellent companion to any student of Scratch. I highly recommend this purchase for classrooms, tech classes, libraries or as a gift ... full review(72)
