Concrete mathematics : a foundation for computer science /
Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth and Oren Patashnik
- Second Edition
- Reading, Massachusetts : Addision-Wesley Publishing Company, c1993
- xiii, 656 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter1. Recurrent problems -- Chapter2. Sums -- Chapter3. Integer functions -- Chapter4. Number theory -- Chapter5. Binomial coefficient -- Chapter6. Special number -- Chapter7. Generating functions -- Chapter8. Discrete probability -- Cchapter9. Asymptotics .
This book is based on the course on the same name that has been taught annually at Stanford University since 1970. Abstract mathematics is a wonderful subject, and there's nothing wrong with it. Its beautiful, general, and useful