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Title: Math at its worst
Review: I have always held the belief (even as a mathematician who favors analysis) that math is suppose to be elegant. This book is anything but elegant. It currently resides in my dorm for the sole purpose of a clip-board so that I may lie on the carpet and work out problems from other texts. I had the unfortunate pleasure of suffering through two semesters of this book. The first semester (the first half of the book) was not bad given that we never referenced the text. The second semester was much worse given that most of the information in the course came directly from the text and its examples. If you are looking for a beginners discrete math book... look elsewhere. I can distinctly remember taking a course in precalculus and discrete mathematics my junior year of highschool in Maryland. That book was actually tollerable.
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