Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction, 3rd edition
Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction is a free, open source textbook appropriate for a first or second year undergraduate course for math majors, especially those who will go on to teach.
Tag(s): Discrete Mathematics
Publication date: 31 Dec 2018
ISBN-10: 1792901690
ISBN-13: 9781792901690
Paperback: 409 pages
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Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction, 3rd edition
Oscar Levin wrote:Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction is a free, open source textbook appropriate for a first or second year undergraduate course for math majors, especially those who will go on to teach. Since Spring 2013, the book has been used as the primary textbook or a supplemental resource at more than 75 colleges and universities around the world (see the partial adoptions list). The text is endorsed by the American Institute of Mathematics' Open Textbook Initiative and is well reviewed on the Open Textbook Library.
This 3rd edition brings many improvements, including nearly 100 new exercises, a new section on trees in the graph theory chapter, and improved exposition throughout. Previous editions will continue to be available indefinitely. A few times a year, the text is updated with a new "printing" to correct errors. See the errata list for more information.
Oscar Levin wrote:The text began as a set of lecture notes for the discrete mathematics course at the University of Northern Colorado. This course serves both as an introduction to topics in discrete math and as the "introduction to proofs" course for math majors. The course is usually taught with a large amount of student inquiry, and this text is written to help facilitate this.Four main topics are covered: counting, sequences, logic, and graph theory. Along the way, proofs are introduced, including proofs by contradiction, proofs by induction, and combinatorial proofs. An introductory chapter covering mathematical statements, sets, and functions helps students gain familiarity with the language of mathematics, and two additional topics (generating functions and number theory) are also included.
About The Author(s)
Oscar Levin is an assistant professor of math in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado. His primary interests lie in effective algebra and combinatorics, computability theory, reverse mathematics, and mathematical logic.
Oscar Levin is an assistant professor of math in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado. His primary interests lie in effective algebra and combinatorics, computability theory, reverse mathematics, and mathematical logic.