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Containing exercises and materials that engage students at all levels, Discrete Mathematics with Ducks presents a gentle introduction for students who find the proofs and abstractions of mathematics challenging. This classroom-tested text uses discrete mathematics as the context for introducing proofwriting. Facilitating effective and active learning, each chapter contains a mixture of discovery activities, expository text, in-class exercises, and homework problems. Elementary exercises at the end of each expository section prompt students to review the material Try This! sections encourage students to construct fundamental components of the concepts, theorems, and proofs discussed. Sets of discovery problems and illustrative examples reinforce learning. Bonus sections can be used for take-home exams, projects, or further study Instructor Notes sections offer suggestions on how to use the material in each chapter Discrete Mathematics with Ducks offers students a diverse introduction to the field and a solid foundation for further study in discrete mathematics and complies with SIGCSE guidelines. The book shows how combinatorics and graph theory are used in both computer science and mathematics. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: A K Peters

City: Natick

Pages: 580

More info: height 235 mm width 191 mm weight 1156 gr thickness 33 mm

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 511.1 Library of Congress Subject: Mathematics

Record updated at: 25 May, 2013 time: 00:53

Summary Discrete Mathematics with Ducks THE BASICS Counting and Proofs Introduction and Summary Try This! Let's Count The Sum and Product Principles Preliminaries on Proofs and Disproofs Pigeons and Correspondences Where to Go from Here Sets and Logic Introduction and Summary Sets Logic Try This! Problems on Sets and Logic Proof Techniques: Not! Try This! A Tricky Conundrum Where to Go from Here Bonus: Truth Tellers Graphs and Functions Introduction and Summary Function Introduction Try This! Play with Functions and Graphs Functions and Counting Graphs: Definitions and Examples Isomorphisms Graphs: Operations and Uses Try This! More Graph Problems Ramseyness Where to Go from Here Bonus: Party Tricks Bonus 2: Counting with the Characteristic Function Induction Introduction and Summary Induction Try This! Induction More Examples The Best Inducktion Proof Ever Try This! More Problems about Induction Are They or Aren't They? Resolving Grey Ducks Where to Go from Here Bonus: Small Crooks Bonus 2: An Induction Song Algorithms with Ciphers Introduction and Summary Algorithms Modular Arithmetic (and Equivalence Relations) Cryptography: Some Ciphers Try This! Encryptoequivalent Modulagorithmic Problems Where to Go from Here Bonus: Algorithms for Searching Graphs Bonus 2: Pigeons and Divisibility COMBINATORICS Binomial Coefficients and Pascal's Triangle Introduction and Summary You Have a Choice Try This! Investigate a Triangle Pascal's Triangle Overcounting Carefully and Reordering at Will Try This! Play with Powers and Permutations Binomial Basics Combinatorial Proof Try This! Pancakes and Proofs Where to Go from Here Bonus: Sorting Bubbles in Order of Size Bonus 2: Mastermind Balls and Boxes and PIE-Counting Techniques Introduction and Summary Combinatorial Problem Types Try This! Let's Have Some PIE Combinatorial Problem Solutions and Strategies Let's Explain Our PIE! Try This! What Are the Balls and What Are the Boxes? And Do You Want Some PIE? Where to Go from Here Bonus: Linear and Integer Programming Recurrences Introduction and Summary Fibonacci Numbers and Identities Recurrences and Integer Sequences and Induction Try This! Sequences and Fibonacci Identities Naive Techniques for Finding Closed Forms and Recurrences Arithmetic Sequences and Finite Differences Try This! Recurrence Exercises Geometric Sequences and the Characteristic Equation Try This! Find Closed Forms for These Recurrence Relations! Where to Go from Here Bonus: Recurring Stories Cutting up Food (Counting and Geometry) Introduction and Summary Try This! Slice Pizza (and a Yam) Pizza Numbers Try This! Spaghetti, Yams, and More Yam, Spaghetti and Pizza Numbers Where to Go from Here Bonus: Geometric Gems GRAPH THEORY Trees Introduction and Summary Basic Facts about Trees Try This! Spanning Trees Spanning Tree Algorithms Binary Trees Try This! Binary Trees and Matchings Matchings Backtracking Where to Go from Here Bonus: The Branch-and-Bound Technique in Integer Programming Euler's Formula and Applications Introduction and Summary Try This! Planarity Explorations Planarity A Lovely Story Or, Are Emus Full?: A Theorem and a Proof Applications of Euler's Formula Try This! Applications of Euler's Formula Where to Go from Here Bonus: Topological Graph Theory Graph Traversals Introduction and Summary Try This! Euler Traversals Euler Paths and Circuits Hamilton Circuits, the Traveling Salesperson Problem, and Dijkstra's Algorithm Try This!-Do This!-Try This! Where to Go from Here Bonus: Digraphs, Euler Traversals, and RNA Chains Bonus 2: Network Flows Bonus 3: Two Hamiltonian Theorems Graph Coloring Introduction and Summary Try This! Coloring Vertices and Edges Introduction to Coloring Try This! Let's Think about Coloring Coloring and Things (Graphs and Concepts) That Have Come Before Where to Go from Here Bonus: The Four-Color Theorem OTHER MATERIAL Probability and Expectation Introduction and Summary What Is Probability, Exactly? High Expectations You are Probably Expected to Try This! Conditional Probability and Independence Try This! ... Probably, Under Certain Conditions Higher Expectations Where to Go from Here Bonus: Ramsey Numbers and the Probabilistic Method Fun with Cardinality Introduction and Summary Read This! Parasitology, The Play How Big Is Infinite? Try This! Investigating the Play How High Can We Count? Where to Go from Here Bonus: The Schroder-Bernstein Theorem Additional Problems Solutions to Check Yourself Problems The Greek Alphabet and Some Uses for Some Letters List of Symbols Glossary Bibliography Problems and Instructor Notes appear at the end of each chapter. Top page

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