Discrete Mathematics

Author: Xu Manling
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This book consists of 11 chapters. The content includes basic knowledge; mathematical logic (propositional logic and first-order logic); counting; relations and directed graphs; functions; groups, rings, and fields; partially ordered sets; graph theory; matching, Menger's theorem, and networks and flows; languages and finite-state machines; numbers, groups, and coding. Each chapter is accompanied by exercises of varying difficulty, suitable for teaching purposes. The author has accumulated over 20 years of teaching experience and has synthesized content from dozens of renowned works from around the world, making the book rich in content, easy to understand, and filled with numerous examples. It can serve as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate students in computer science and technology, applied mathematics, automatic control, electronic engineering, information science, and related fields.