SICP - summary of 10 months working through the entire book

Re:SICP - summary of 10 months working through the entire book by donw on Friday April 18, 2008 @12:50PM (#167382)

I've actually just started reading this today with about the same set of goals, and so it's nice to see someone finish the thing up. I wasn't thinking about going through this as part of a long-running blog, but now that I've found this, it might not be a bad idea to do so with some other my other undergraduate review...

Speaking of which, does anyone have some good recommendations for a discrete mathematics textbook, specifically one that includes both theory (proofs) and application?

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Re:SICP - summary of 10 months working through the entire book by michael_dorfman on Friday April 18, 2008 @01:38PM (#167441)

It's probably too idiosyncratic to meet your needs, but I really like Knuth's "Concrete Mathematics"

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Re:SICP - summary of 10 months working through the entire book by tjr on Friday April 18, 2008 @01:45PM (#167447)

Great book, though it covers a somewhat different subset of topics than those typically considered "discrete mathematics"...

http://www.mhhe.com/math/advmath/rosen/ ..is what we used in college; I found it hard to read in spots, but haven't really found anything overall better.

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Re:SICP - summary of 10 months working through the entire book by donw on Friday April 18, 2008 @03:07PM (#167551)

Ordered from Amazon; let's see if I can put that useless BA in math to some productive work...

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Re:SICP - summary of 10 months working through the entire book by gms on Friday April 18, 2008 @09:57PM (#167795)

It's a great book, but not exactly one in the theorem-proof-corollary vein.

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Re:SICP - summary of 10 months working through the entire book by SwellJoe on Friday April 18, 2008 @05:10PM (#167656)

I've been casually studying along with this:

http://aduni.org/courses/discrete/

The recommended text is Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, by Rosen, which is a mixed bag according to reviews but the consensus is generally good. AdUni provides a full series of video lectures and quite a bit of course material. Nearly all of the AdUni.org stuff is awesome (though the ancient Abelson and Sussman lectures are far better than the Yanco lectures at AdUni.org) and a great supplement to self-study. It's mostly taught by MIT grad students (which is what you'd get if you were taking the courses at MIT, so not a bad deal).

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