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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: beginner's guide to discrete mathematics
  name:
    name part: Wallis, W. D.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: preservation
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 367 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: This introduction to discrete mathematics is aimed primarily at undergraduates in mathematics and computer science at the freshmen and sophomore levels. The text has a distinctly applied orientation and begins with a survey of number systems and elementary set theory. Included are discussions of scientific notation and the representation of numbers in computers. An introduction to set theory includes mathematical induction, and leads into a discussion of Boolean algebras and circuits. Relations and functions are defined. An introduction to counting, including the Binomial Theorem, is used in studying the basics of probability theory. Graph study is discussed, including Euler and Hamilton cycles and trees. This is a vehicle for some easy proofs, as well as serving as another example of a data structure. Matrices and vectors are then defined. The book concludes with an introduction to cryptography, including the RSA cryptosystem, together with the necessary elementary number theory, such as the Euclidean algorithm. Good examples occur throughout, and most worked examples are followed by easy practice problems for which full solutions are provided. At the end of every section there is a problem set, with solutions to odd-numbered exercises. There is a full index. A math course at the college level is the required background for this text; college algebra would be the most helpful. However, students with greater mathematical preparation will benefit from some of the more challenging sections.
  table of contents: Preface -- Properties of Numbers -- Sets and Data Structures -- Boolean Algebras and Circuits -- Relations and Functions -- The Theory of Counting -- Probability -- Graph Theory -- Matrices -- Number Theory and Cryptography -- Bibliography -- Answers to Odd Number Exercises -- Index.
  note: W.D. Wallis.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathématiques
  subject:
    topic: Informatique
    topic: Mathématiques
  subject:
    topic: Diskrete Mathematik
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  classification: QA39.3 .W35 2003
  classification: 510
  classification: SK 110
  classification: SK 890
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2002026043
    identifier: (OCoLC)50092049
  identifier: 0817642692 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780817642693 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 3764342692 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 9783764342692 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781475738261 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1475738269 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 140314
    record change date: 20260420211443.4
    record identifier: in00003546710
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng