Buch, Englisch, 700 Seiten, Format (B × H): 243 mm x 200 mm, Gewicht: 1596 g
Reihe: Textbooks in Mathematics
Buch, Englisch, 700 Seiten, Format (B × H): 243 mm x 200 mm, Gewicht: 1596 g
Reihe: Textbooks in Mathematics
ISBN: 978-1-138-05259-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The new, expanded edition continues to facilitate effective and active learning. It is designed to help students learn about discrete mathematics through problem-based activities. These are created to inspire students to understand mathematics by actively practicing and doing, which helps students better retain what they’ve learned. As such, each chapter contains a mixture of discovery-based activities, projects, expository text, in-class exercises, and homework problems.
The author’s lively and friendly writing style is appealing to both instructors and students alike and encourages readers to learn. The book’s light-hearted approach to the subject is a guiding principle and helps students learn mathematical abstraction.
Features:
- The book’s Try This! sections encourage students to construct components of discussed concepts, theorems, and proofs
- Provided sets of discovery problems and illustrative examples reinforce learning
- Bonus sections can be used by instructors as part of their regular curriculum, for projects, or for further study
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
Preface for Instructors and Other Teachers
Preface for Students and Other Learners
Theme: The Basics
1 Counting and Proofs
2 Sets and Logic
3 Graphics and Functions
4 Induction
5 Algorithms with Ciphers
Theme I Supplement
6 Binomial Coefficients and Pascal’s Triangle
7 Balls and Boxes and PIE: Counting Techniques
8 Recurrences
9 Cutting Up Food: Counting and Geometry
III Theme: Graph Theory
10 Trees
11 Euler’s Formula and Applications
12 Graph Traversals
13 Graph Coloring
Theme III Supplement: Problems on the Theme of Graph Theory
IV Other Material
14 Probability and Expectation
15 Fun with Cardinality
16 Number Theory
17 Computational Complexity
A Solutions to Check Yourself Problems
B Solutions to Bonus Check-Yourself Problems
C The Greek Alphabet and Some Uses for Some Letters
D List of Symbols
Bibliography
Index