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List Price: $89.99 Price: $61.61 You Save: $28.38 (32%) "Great reference for aspiring Computer Scientists! Utility is dependent on one's *math* preliminaries." - By CHAD D WOOD
This is a wonderful and desk reference, proving holistic coverage of all the math-oriented themes in CS study and practice. It is especially helpful if you already have a solid background in math, up to at least College Calculus I. If you need to write a proof of some algorithm, it has countless examples of proofs to draw inspiration from, and includes many examples of the (genius) author's thinking when they work their way to proofs. I'm quite glad I own it as Concrete Mathematics is a monumental achievement and quite comprehensive.
It gets 4 instead of 5 stars because despite having, as advertised, complete coverage of the mathematical topics needed for Computer Science, it is NOT a math book designed to teach you how to *conceptualize* the content it covers. It is heavy on examples and light on theory, and so is not particularly ... full review(63) -
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List Price: $59.99 Price: $45.00 You Save: $14.99 (25%) "Good book for revision not an introduction" - By Amazon Customer
This book is great for anyone wanting a refresher of some mathematical concepts from a previous class, like calculus or discrete math. It is not an introductory book by any means although it is marketed as such. The author teaches mathematical concepts in an interesting and engaging way by making historical references and relating those same concepts to everyday activities. He makes you understand why certain mathematical constructs are the way they are. The language used in the book is also very simple and easy to understand. The same can be said for the illustrations and images used.(2) -
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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: $227.99 Price: $162.20 You Save: $65.79 (29%) "Simply Wonderful" - By Charles J (Sturgis, MI USA)
We are using this book for the second in a series of Discrete Structures courses at my school. This book is significantly better than the one we used (Discrete Structures, Logic, And Computability, J. Hein) the first term, which is also used by the second section of the course. I'm very glad I didn't register for it.
This book is packed with information, but most importantly for someone learning the subject matter it is very readable and easy to understand without dumbing down the content.(55) -
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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: $26.00 Price: $19.11 You Save: $6.89 (27%) "Well written but all over the map as far as subject matter" - By calvinnme
I found this Schaum's outline to be a very well written book on a variety of elementary mathematical subjects probably most suitable for someone who has just graduated high school and is a freshman starting some kind of technical degree. However, beyond that, I am not sure exactly who the target audience is supposed to be. The book contains some information on the very basic computer math that a college freshman engineering or IT student would need to know such as binary number systems and computer codes and math. However, some of the other material is very much oriented towards the aspiring computer engineer but is not really mathematical such as the sections on logic, flowcharts, sets and relations, and logic gates. Other sections are mathematical but don't necessarily have anything to do with computers and could be just as helpful to a student of applied mathematics such as ... full review(10) -
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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: $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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List Price: $42.95 Price: $35.18 You Save: $7.77 (18%) "It's like a guided tour of a Soviet mathematics museum." - By Adrian Vazquez
It's like a guided tour of a Soviet mathematics museum.
Excellent reading for anyone interested in mathematics.
Not many problems to crunch.
Requires Algebra and Geometry.(39) -
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List Price: $39.99 Price: $31.57 You Save: $8.42 (21%) "This book is very good, one of a kind" - By Technology
This book is very good, one of a kind. Explanations are clear. It's fun to read. The math and code are intertwined in quite a remarkable fashion. I guess this is what a Rembrandt painting would look like, if painted in C++ on math canvas. I would recommend this book to anyone who programs in C++, from beginner to expert level.(46) -
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List Price: $18.95 Price: $14.90 You Save: $4.05 (21%) "Delightful little book" - By Jeremy Roach
The best thing about this book is it will leave you hungering for more details from e.g. Martin Davis' Computability and Unsolvability.
A Turing Machine in this book is described differently from what you'd find in Charles Petzold's The Annotated Turing. Instead of being in tabular form it's described by a "state diagram." These diagrams are introduced to describe finite automata, and a Turing Machine is presented as a finite automaton with additional capabilities. So in addition to accepting and non-accepting states that halt, a TM can also diverge (not halt). It's an appealing way to learn about TMs.
The author is a mathematician, but you don't need experience reading definition-theorem-proof textbooks. In fact there's a section toward the end of the book titled Proof by Contradiction containing a thorough proof that sqrt(2) is not a rational number.
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List Price: $259.99 Price: $190.54 You Save: $69.45 (27%) "Great for advanced programmers" - By F. Khan (Miami, FL)
This is a great set that should be on every programmer's bookshelf. They look beautiful in the boxed set with high quality covers as well as pages. Bill Gates once said about these books: "If somebody is so brash that they think they know everything, Knuth will help them understand that the world is deep and complicated." I think that they are great for reference. Now that I am no longer in an academic setting, I think that I can enjoy expanding my knowledge base slowly moving through this content. For any programmer looking to enhance their knowledge base, this is the perfect book set to invest in.(78) -
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List Price: $32.95 Price: $27.87 You Save: $5.08 (15%) "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)
