I am a beginner in this craft. Do you know where can I download a good book about basics of discrete mathematics?
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1What are your prerequisites? What do you need to learn? – hmakholm left over Monica Jul 06 '12 at 23:12
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1This question has already been asked: http://math.stackexchange.com/q/350/19379, http://math.stackexchange.com/q/1533/19379, http://math.stackexchange.com/q/5126/19379. – M Turgeon Jul 06 '12 at 23:27
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2Just in case someone would consider vote-duplicate, kindly note that OP asks for a downloadable book. – Jul 06 '12 at 23:29
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Do you have access to a library? (somewhat off the downloadable topic) – davidlowryduda Jul 06 '12 at 23:38
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1Try http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring12/mcs.pdf – boumol Jul 06 '12 at 23:50
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Amazon has many downloadable texts on discrete mathematics, though of course not for free. – Logan M Jul 07 '12 at 00:07
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László Lovász & Kati Vesztergombi, Discrete Mathematics, Lecture Notes, Yale University, Spring 1999, is available as a .ps file here and as a PDF here. 18 April 2020: The PDF is no longer available. 16 August 2020 The link is updated. Now its working.
Edward A. Bender & S. Gill Williamson, Foundations of Combinatorics with Applications, is available in both formats here.
Both have a strong emphasis on combinatorics, and both do a significant amount of graph theory. The Bender & Williamson is a bit more computer-science oriented and covers in greater depth some of the topics that they have in common; the Lovász & Vesztergombi covers some elementary number theory.
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