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Far more user friendly than the vast majority of similar books, this text is truly written with the beginning reader in mind. The pace is tight, the style is light, and the text emphasizes theorem proving throughout. The authors emphasize Active Reading, a skill vital to success in learning how to think mathematically (And write clean, error-free programs).featuresA friendly, conversational, humorous style - Makes this top seller stimulating and engaging for the readerMore than 150 Pauses (Short questions) - Inserted at strategic points. Full solutions to Pauses are included at the end of each sectionEmphasis on writing and critical-thinking skillsMore than 300 worked examples and 3500 exercises. The problem sets are carefully graded by level of difficultyTopics in discrete math are used as a vehicle for teaching proofsAn unusually strong emphasis on graph theory, incorporating its coverage throughout six chaptersA glossary of definitions and a list of symbols and notation.