Oren Patashnik, Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth

Concrete Mathematics

A Foundation for Computer Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Concrete Mathematics is a blending of CONtinuous and disCRETE mathematics. "More concretely," the authors explain, "it is the controlled manipulation of mathematical formulas, using a collection of techniques for solving problems." The subject matter is primarily an expansion of the Mathematical Preliminaries section in Knuth's classic Art of Computer Programming, but the style of presentation is more leisurely, and individual topics are covered more deeply. Several new topics have been added, and the most significant ideas have been traced to their historical roots. The book includes more than 500 exercises, divided into six categories. Complete answers are provided for all exercises, except research problems, making the book particularly valuable for self-study.

Major topics include:

- Sums

- Recurrences

- Integer functions

- Elementary number theory

- Binomial coefficients

- Generating functions

- Discrete probability

- Asymptotic methods

This second edition includes important new material about mechanical summation. In response to the widespread use of the first edition as a reference book, the bibliography and index have also been expanded, and additional nontrivial improvements can be found on almost every page. Readers will appreciate the informal style of Concrete Mathematics. Particularly enjoyable are the marginal graffiti contributed by students who have taken courses based on this material. The authors want to convey not only the importance of the techniques presented, but some of the fun in learning and using them.

Ebook (PDF version) produced by Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP),

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson Education
• 3nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 192mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1499g
• ISBN-13: 9780201558029
• ISBN-10: 0201558025
• Artikelnr.: 03693555

Autorenporträt

Ronald L. Graham (1935-2020) was for many years the Chief Scientist at AT&T Labs Research. He was also a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of California, San Diego, and a former President of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. He was the coauthor of seven other mathematics books. Donald E. Knuth is Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University. His prolific writings include four volumes on The Art of Computer Programming, and five books related to his TEX and METAFONT typesetting systems. Oren Patashnik is a member of the research staff at the Center for Communications Research, La Jolla, California. He is also the author of BibTEX, a widely used bibliography processor.