Oscar Levin

Digital versions PDF and HTML (interactive)
Latex source Yes
Mathbook XML source Yes
Exercises Yes
Solutions Yes
License Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
  • Text for first or second year math majors
  • Print edition for $12.50 from Amazon or CreateSpace
  • 336 pages
  • 363 exercises, 233 with answers or solutions
  • 45 more involved problems
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This open source textbook is being used at the University of Northern Colorado in a discrete mathematics course taken primarily by math majors, many of whom plan to become secondary teachers. This text can also be used in a bridge course or introduction to proofs. The major topics are introduced with Investigate! activities designed to get students more actively involved and which are suitable for inquiry based learning.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Counting
  3. Sequences
  4. Symbolic Logic and Proofs
  5. Graph Theory
  6. Additional Topics
    1. Generating Functions
    2. Introduction to Number Theory