An Invitation to Discrete Mathematics

"An Invitation to Discrete Mathmatics" is an excellent textbook for college students, advanced high school students, and curious post-grads like myself. The text is engaging and clear, and the content reveals much of the wonderful capabilities of mathematics for a broad variety of sub-disciplines.

I like discrete math so I really liked this book. Good layout. Clear proofs. Provocative exercise questions. It was in good condition.

Book arrived as described and on time.

Worst math textbook for undergrad. No example, no trivial example, the exercises doesnt have solution and very hard to solve. This is textbook should be use for grad level.

reading this book requires some mathematical maturity. proofs are very clear and easy to follow. examples are very intuitive and relevant. great collection of exercises.

I cannot speak for the English version, which seems to be somewhat lacking in quality of translation, but the Czech version is very engaging and I can highly recommend it for any undergraduate student interested in discrete mathematics.

As another student mentioned, this textbook does not contain a single example. Only definition, statement of theorem, and rigorous proof. This book has minimal emphasis on applications and contains poorly written explanation of stated questions.If you are an instructor, please avoid this book for teaching. Students cannot read this textbook and make sense of it. The math department at our university selected this textbook unfortunately.

I had this textbook in my undergraduate Discrete Math course. I have never written an Amazon review but I feel the need to in this case. The reviews I could find deal with the Czech version and are glowing. The English translation is not useful for those who are trying to learn the material for the first time.1. The text uses analogies and metaphors that don't seem to be translated to English correctly.2. It is organized as if the lecture was transcribed directly into this book. It is not organized for reading.3. Possibly the worst thing about this book is that there are virtually no examples. The authors use formal proofs to explain the material.4. Often the finial pieces of the proofs are "left as an excersize for the reader" (meaning homework at the end of the chapter). Too make matters worse only "hints" are provided at the back of the book and only for selected excersizes.This is not a book to learn from, even with a very good lecturer I found that referring to this book for topics that were already explained was pointless. The school (Univ of CT) agreed dropping this text in favor of another after only one semester of its use.To get through the course I ended up finding "Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications" by Kenneth H. Rosen and I highly recommend it. If you're forced to use "Invitation to Discrete Mathematics" in a course I'd suggest you buy a copy of Rosen's text (even an older edition).

An excellent book by the authors. Thanks alot to the seller for delivering the book in less two weeks to my place.

I will teach Discrete Mathematics and this book is a real treasure. It contains most of the standard topics in the more narrow sense of Discrete Mathematics. That is Combinatorics and Graph Theory. All the proofs are really well explained. Enough exercises, examples, and additional explanations help the students to deepen their understanding. It has enough material to teach a 10-week course.

Für mich als Informatik Student war dieses Buch der ideale Begleiter für das Fach Diskrete Mathematik (Vorlesung mit Rechenübung).Das Buch gibt einen guten Einstieg in die Graphentheorie (aber auch andere Themen werden behandelt).Es ist allerdings keineswegs "vollständig" - viele Grundlagen vermisst man komplett, z.B. flow networks.Die eigentliche Stärke des Buchs ist aber ganz eine andere: man lernt, wie man saubere Beweise führt und wie man "mathematisch denkt".Man muss sich beim Lesen Zeit lassen und auch mit Zettel und Bleistift bewaffnet den ein oder anderen Beweis nochmal nachrechnen.Insgesamt hat mir das Buch geholfen, die Thematik zu verstehen und auch ein gewisses Interesse dafür zu entwickeln.

Dass das Schreiben einer Rezension seitens Amazon nicht optional ist, stoert mich (zumal ich ja die bestmoegliche Punktzahl vergeben habe).Das Produkt (Buch) verwende ich zum Lesen (was ist das fuer eine seltsame Frage seitens Amazon).