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Discrete Mathematical Structures: Theory and Applications | Hardcover

by D.S. Malik (Author), M.K. Sen (Author)

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$148.95

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Binding:

Hardcover

Publisher:

Course Technology

Edition:

1st Edition

Page Count:

928 Pages

Publication Date:

May 20, 2004

Sales Rank:

862,081nd

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
Discrete Mathematical Structures teaches students the mathematical foundations of computer science, including logic, Boolean algebra, basic graph theory, finite state machines, grammars, and algorithms. This required class for Computer Science students helps them understand mathematical reasoning for reading, comprehension, and construction of mathematical arguments.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.0 based on 4 reviews)

Possibly the poorest-quality academic textbook ever conceived by D. Borders

1 Stars
March 08, 2009
On one end of the spectrum, there are books that present you with the subject matter in an intuitive fashion that will facilitate your learning the course material. This book occupies the opposite end of that spectrum: Not only will it teach you to hate the subject material due to its shoddy presentation and execution, at worst you will learn a concept in the chapter only to have your understanding of it shattered by questions at the end of each section that ask you about things that are not covered in the text, but which are obviously key in understanding the concepts discussed. Everyone in our university discrete structures course has come to hate this textbook. It almost never fully explains the concepts and routinely expects the student to somehow abstract the remainder of the needed information in order to either wrap their heads around the concept or answer the related homework exercises. The student is therefore left to blindly answer the questions without a full understanding of the material. Often it is an issue of too little English when describing concepts. Other times the authors seem to think that a linear, non-representative example that only covers a small subset of all the facets of a concept is enough to explain the full concept, then coldly moves on to a new concept while you are left scratching your head and struggling to understand. A good, representative example of the not-enough-information problem follows: In the chapter on relations and partial-order sets, one of the exercise (homework) questions asks the student to construct a Hasse diagram for a partially-ordered set with conditions (N,

Terrible book. by Strikeralley

1 Stars
February 04, 2009
This book is absolutely garbage. The books examples are poorly written and the book does a terrible job of explaining what the exercises actually want. If you don't have an amazing teacher, this book is going to trash your GPA!

Crazy by Ewart Nicholas (Ypsilanti, MI USA)

5 Stars
March 29, 2008
great text book like new condiction for less than 5 dollars, this is beyond crazy. I couldn't believe when I saw it online, so I was hoping to get some ragged, page missing book in the mail, but didnt...like they said("Like brand NEW").

Ugh by Kab00m (United States)

1 Stars
February 28, 2008
If you live and breathe math, you may enjoy this book. I'm good at math, but I like to have a verbal explanation before examining a dense proof. This text fails me. I can't tell you how many times the authors could have saved me hours of struggling if they had just included a few more words of English. They skips steps and assume, assume, assume. This book contains lots of examples...most explained as poorly as possible. Also, I have the most recent version and their posted errata. We continue to find errors weekly. This is maddening. How can one learn these skills when the standards for comparison are often faulty? Also, there are only a few answers for each section offered in the back. Rather than having all of the odds to check your work against, you only get 1, 3, 9, 15, 25. You can download all of the odd answers, but you have to have a special code that only comes with a new copy. So, if you bought this second hand, you're screwed.

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