The essence of discrete mathematics
By: Neville Dean.
Series: The essence of computing series
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer science -- Mathematics.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: 1
title: READ.ME
pagenum: 1; label: 1.1
title: The Nature and Purpose of Discrete Mathematics
pagenum: 1; label: 1.2
title: Learning Discrete Mathematics
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: An Introduction to Sets
pagenum: 6; label: 2.1
title: What Is a Set?
pagenum: 6; label: 2.2
title: Relations Between Sets
pagenum: 10; label: 2.3
title: Operations on Sets
pagenum: 13; label: 2.4
title: Case Study: Project Teams
pagenum: 23; label: 2.5
title: Exercise
pagenum: 24; label: 3
title: Propositional Logic
pagenum: 31; label: 3.1
title: What Is Logic?
pagenum: 31; label: 3.2
title: Propositional Forms
pagenum: 33; label: 3.3
title: Definitions of Connectives
pagenum: 36; label: 3.4
title: Other Propositional Forms
pagenum: 37; label: 3.5
title: Metalanguage
pagenum: 40; label: 3.6
title: The Use of Brackets
pagenum: 44; label: 3.7
title: Modelling Software with Logic
pagenum: 47; label: 3.8
title: Exercise
pagenum: 49; label: 4
title: Predicate Logic
pagenum: 51; label: 4.1
title: Set Comprehension
pagenum: 51; label: 4.2
title: Set Replacement
pagenum: 58; label: 4.3
title: Venn Diagrams
pagenum: 60; label: 4.4
title: Quantifiers
pagenum: 69; label: 4.5
title: Case Study: Project Teams
pagenum: 76; label: 4.6
title: Exercise
pagenum: 78; label: 5
title: Relations
pagenum: 82; label: 5.1
title: What Is a Relation?
pagenum: 82; label: 5.2
title: Operations on Relations
pagenum: 83; label: 5.3
title: Modelling Relations
pagenum: 84; label: 5.4
title: Modelling Relations with Product Sets
pagenum: 85; label: 5.5
title: Operations on Relations Considered as Sets
pagenum: 88; label: 5.6
title: Some Special Types of Relation
pagenum: 93; label: 5.7
title: Case Study: Project Teams
pagenum: 96; label: 5.8
title: Exercise
pagenum: 98; label: 6
title: Homogeneous Relations
pagenum: 100; label: 6.1
title: What Is a Homogeneous Relation?
pagenum: 100; label: 6.2
title: Classes of Homogeneous Relations
pagenum: 102; label: 6.3
title: Closures
pagenum: 106; label: 6.4
title: Case Study: Project Teams
pagenum: 111; label: 6.5
title: Exercise
pagenum: 112; label: 7
title: Functions
pagenum: 114; label: 7.1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 114; label: 7.2
title: An Intuitive View of Functions
pagenum: 114; label: 7.3
title: Modelling Functions
pagenum: 120; label: 7.4
title: Modelling Operations on Functions
pagenum: 126; label: 7.5
title: Special Kinds of Function
pagenum: 131; label: 7.6
title: Bijections
pagenum: 135; label: 7.7
title: Case Study: Project Teams
pagenum: 136; label: 7.8
title: Exercise
pagenum: 137; label: 8
title: Mathematical Models
pagenum: 141; label: 8.1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 141; label: 8.2
title: Mathematical Models
pagenum: 141; label: 8.3
title: Modelling Abstract Data Types
pagenum: 143; label: 8.4
title: Modelling Changes of State
pagenum: 147; label: 8.5
title: Exercise
pagenum: 147; label: 9
title: Quo Vadis?
pagenum: 150; label: 9.1
title: Review
pagenum: 150; label: 9.2
title: Further Study
pagenum: 151; label: A
title: Self-Test Questions
pagenum: 156; label: B
title: Answers to Exercises
pagenum: 162; label: B.1
title: Introduction to Sets
pagenum: 162; label: B.2
title: Propositional Logic
pagenum: 167; label: B.3
title: Predicate Logic
pagenum: 175; label: B.4
title: Relations
pagenum: 179; label: B.5
title: Homogeneous Relations
pagenum: 181; label: B.6
title: Functions
pagenum: 182; label: B.7
title: Applications
pagenum: 184; label: B.8
title: Self-Test Questions
pagenum: 185; label: C
title: Glossary of Terms
pagenum: 186; label: D
title: Table of Symbols
pagenum: 191; title: Index
pagenum: 193