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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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