Can anyone reccomend me a discrete mathematics book?

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I'm looking for an undergraduate level discrete mathematics book for computer science, there isn't one listed in the universities reccomended reading list, and the lecturer is crap, so can anyone reccomend me one?
 
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Do you have any pastpapers?
My lecturer was crap for it as well but doing a pastpaper every couple weeks or so will make it easy to understand. Your not at strathclyde are you :P
 
Im doing comp sci and did discrete maths in first year. Never bough a textbook for it, i just used wikipedia whenever i got stuck.
 
Im in my 4th year of CS at kent. we did Maths in the first.

Recommended Library Books

This list contains some useful books which are held within the UKC library. There is no single book which covers all the topics taught on the course, so you may need to refer to more than one during the year.

* Mathematics: the core course for A-level by Bostock and Chandler
* Mathematics: a second start by Page
* A concise course in A-level statistics by Crawshaw and Chambers
* Foundation Maths by Croft and Davison
* The following Heinemann modular mathematics books
o Pure mathematics 1 (P1)
o Pure mathematics 2 (P2)
o Pure mathematics 3 (P3)
o Pure mathematics 4 (P4)
o Pure mathematics 5 (P5)
o Pure mathematics 6 (P6)
o Statistics 1 (T1)*

This is not a comprehensive list of all the suitable books, just a selection of useful ones. There are many more mathematics books in the library, and you may find them more useful than the books suggested. If you do find a book you prefer and think it should be added to this list, then please mail the title and author to Janet.

* This book has now been superceded by S1, S2 and S3 but the relevant material is now spread over all 3 books.

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This is very discrete, no one will notice you're doing maths at all ;) :p
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I did a Discrete Maths module in my foundation degree, I actually scanned and threw away all my notes recently.

The lecturer (i.e. material) was pretty good. I think all the notes were re-written from a book.

I just trawled through my uni's site to see if I could find a module outline for this and luckily I found a reccommended reading list:

S Lipschitz Schaum’s outline of theory and problems of essential Computer Mathematics, McGraw-Hill 1987.

S Epp Discrete Mathematics with Applications, 3rd edition PWS 2004

WK Grassman J-P Tremblay, Logic and discrete mathematics: a computer science perspective, Prentice Hall 1996.
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I have no idea which one was used when I studied that module, but I guess start with the first one.

I can't be bothered to concatenate my notes into one file to send to you, but if you really want them just give me a shout. I need to organize my notes anyway so I can get rid of the mess of papers that's been piled up by my desk for a few good years. :p
 
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