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Discrete Mathematical Structures

Section 0.2 Further reading

  • The original version of these lecture notes were written for a course that followed the book Discrete Mathematics and its Applications by Kenneth Rosen [13].
  • The material in Integers and Modern Applications for the Uninitiated
     1 
    go.uncg.edu/mat112
    overlaps with the material in these notes, but lacks the emphasis on proofs.
  • Oscar Levin’s Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction
     2 
    discrete.openmathbooks.org
    is another good representation to some of the material covered in this course.
  • Book of Proof
     3 
    www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/
    by Richard Hammock is an introduction to the standard methods of proving mathematical theorems. It has been approved by the American Institute of Mathematics’ Open Textbook Initiative.
  • The Art of Proof
     4 
    link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-7023-7
    by Matthias Beck and Ross Geoghegan is an excellent introduction to writing good proofs. This book is not open source, but our library has a Springer subscription that includes this book. Go to the UNCG Library Catalog to find this book. You can download a free copy by entering your UNCG iSpartan credentials.