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Discrete Mathematics with Applications
Susanna S. Epp
Edition: 3
Retail Price (not our price): $188.95
ISBN: 0534359450
ISBN-13: 9780534359454
Publication Date: 2003-12-22
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 928


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Product Description
Susanna Epp's DISCRETE MATHEMATICS, THIRD EDITION provides a clear introduction to discrete mathematics. Renowned for her lucid, accessible prose, Epp explains complex, abstract concepts with clarity and precision. This book presents not only the major themes of discrete mathematics, but also the reasoning that underlies mathematical thought. Students develop the ability to think abstractly as they study the ideas of logic and proof. While learning about such concepts as logic circuits and computer addition, algorithm analysis, recursive thinking, computability, automata, cryptography, and combinatorics, students discover that the ideas of discrete mathematics underlie and are essential to the science and technology of the computer age. Overall, Epp's emphasis on reasoning provides students with a strong foundation for computer science and upper-level mathematics courses.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) much better   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Very well written, in simple terms. I reccomend this to anyone returning to school to finish a degree or changing their career goals.

2) Before you buy   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Hello all,Just like many reviewers, I give this book 5 stars, why? First of all I am a seniormajoring CSE and I hate all college text books. This book is an exception. The first three chapters is introduction to logics nothing much. From chapter four on the good stuff starts, induction, set theory, recursion, representations, and more. The book has lots of examples and exercises, also the answers to selected exercise are on the back of the book, (not just answers also the work). Above all this book is really good but before you buy it hear this:/*********************************************************************************** I wouldn't recommend that you buy this book why? Because the second edition is same as this book, the only difference is the cover Image and the exercise problems. So copy the homework problems from the copy at your college's library and use the second edition as a reference. Also the second edition costs only $5.0 or less**********************************************************************************/Thank you and good luckcheers

3) Perfect book for its purpose   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This book serves as a terrific introduction to concepts which are of paramount importance in upper-level math courses, most notably Probability Theory, Real Analysis, and Abstract Algebra. Moreover, it provides a solid basis for computer science majors who wish to write more logically sound and efficient programs. I regularly referred back to this in my Real Analysis and Probability courses, and I imagine others would do the same. Also, Dr. Epp's clear, conversational style doesn't hurt the student's confidence later in more rigorous academic enterprises, as well as a concise layout and reasonable pace. Highly recommended.

4) Good explainations.   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This book explained concepts very well. The chapters were easy reads and I even referrred to this text for a Math Reasoning class. If you are a math genius and hate explainations then don't get this book. But if you like to fully understand what you are doing then I would suggest this book.

5) Great book   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Wow, this is a great book. I bought this book as a secondary helper book to a really bad math textbook and this book helped me tons. It only seemed to help during the first half of the semester because by the end it wasn't covering the same material as the class was. But it covered the material that it did really really well. It also has really good problems with good solutions that explain what's going on. Something that so many other math books seem to lack on Discrete math. Just a great book.