IntroductionEssentialsofDiscreteMathematicsisdesignedforfirst-orsecond-year-puterscienceandmathmajorsidiscretemathematicscourses.Thistextisalsoaexcellentresourceforstudentsiotherdisciplines.Unlikemostothertextbooksothemarket，Essentialspresentsthematerialiamannerthatissuitableforaprehensiveandcohesiveone-semestercourse.Thetextisorganizedaroundfivetyjlesofmathematicaltlunking：logical，relational，recursive，quantitative，andanalytical.Torein-forcethisapproach，graphsareintroducedearlyandreferredtothroughoutthetext，providingarichercontextforexampieYsandapplications.Applicationsappearthroughoutthetext，andthefinalchapterexploresseveralusesofdiscretemathematicalthinkingiavarietyofdisaplines.Casestudiesfrombiology，sociology，linguistics，economics，andmusiccabeusedasthebasisforindependentstudyorundergraduateresearchprojects.Everysectiohasitsowsetofexercises，whicharedesignedtodeveloptheskillsofreadingandwritingproofs.SynopsisoftheChaptersChapter1introducesthereadertoLogicalThinking.Thechapterexplo
