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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 510
EAN: 9780201142365
ISBN: 0201142368
Label: Addison-Wesley Pub (Sd)
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Pub (Sd)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 638
Publication Date: 1988-09
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub (Sd)
Studio: Addison-Wesley Pub (Sd)
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This book, updated and improved, introduces the mathematics that support advanced computer programming and the analysis of algorithms. The book's primary aim is to provide a solid and relevant base of mathematical skills. It is an indispensable text and reference for computer scientists and serious programmers in virtually every discipline.
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How often do you get to have two of the giants of mathematics Graham and Knuth co-author (with Patashnik) a book like this - even suitable for high-school students?
Don't let the binding or whatever fools you, this is a serious math book and serious thinking is required. The material is broad and interesting. I think the book can be used as a supplement text to any of the discrete math/algorithm course (or just leisure reading). It will serve you years to come. Extra bonus - the marginal notes. It may be annoying to you or not but I found it funny at times.
I echo the same feeling as some of the readers here - keep this one always within reach. This is a future classic!
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really good book, some times it's bit hard to comprehend, but I'm enjoying the struggle.
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I had the pleasure of taking the course "Concrete Mathematics" with Ron Graham as an undergrad engineering student at Princeton University in the late 1980s, and in retrospect it was quite possibly the highlight of my academic career. Likewise, this text has a cherished spot in my bookcase even to this day. The material is challenging, sometimes downright frustrating, but good stuff nonetheless... and as others have noted, very useful! The skills gained are specifically tailored for application in fields such as computer science, really a number of disciplines; and complement what one learns in the more "standard" math courses. How many academic texts have become must-haves even beyond your college years? For me, only this one. I'd give it fifteen stars if I could.
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This book's title can be misleading. I would say it is more of an advanced textbook on the mathematics that is a foundation for computer science than a foundational book on the mathematics of computer science. I think this misreading of the title and thus the book's content is what is behind much of the heartache that readers have when trying to tackle it. This book expands on the "Mathematical Preliminaries" portion of "The Art of Computer Programming" series of books by Knuth, and thus this book has a style much like that series of books. The book is complete and clear, but it is also densely packed with lots of theory and proofs and will require much effort and time to understand well. It is really not meant to be an applied mathematics textbook at all. I show the table of contents next. Note that there are exercises at the conclusion of each chapter with solutions in the back of the book. However, most of the exercises are not so simple that you can just glimpse at the solution and ... Read More
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I have the First Edition and came here to look into the Second Edition. There are several negative reviews and basically those folks have fundamental misunderstandings. So I'll add my review.
First, what kind of book is it? It is not an introductory-level math book with lots and lots of repetition. It is a book on hard math, done in a concise manner by brilliant teachers who assume students are very comfortable with calculus, probability, etc. You really cannot afford to skip around and dabble as if this were an introductory algebra course or something. (I'm not being elitist. I did not attend Stanford and don't consider myself a math genius and am not making this a "we versus the unwashed masses" issue, as I have really struggled with the material myself.)
Second, what is the book about? Several reviewers have theories on where the "Concrete" part of the title comes from, but the bottom line is that it's a book on the discrete math that you need to know for theoretical ... Read More
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