I am a beginner in this craft. Do you know where can I download a good book about basics of discrete mathematics?
[Math] find (download) a book about basics of discrete mathematics
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Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, By Donald Knuth himself!
Recently I've been studying bioinformatics, and in an effort to get my biology up to scratch, I've been watching online lectures via iTunes U. There's an astonishing number of free recorded lectures available, including discrete mathematics.
Typically the video and lecture quality is very high, although I have encountered a few lower quality videos. I'd recommend trying them out before downloading a huge amount (some of the downloads can be quite large).
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László Lovász & Kati Vesztergombi, Discrete Mathematics, Lecture Notes, Yale University, Spring 1999, is available as a .ps file here and as a PDF here. 18 April 2020: The PDF is no longer available. 16 August 2020 The link is updated. Now its working.
Edward A. Bender & S. Gill Williamson, Foundations of Combinatorics with Applications, is available in both formats here.
Both have a strong emphasis on combinatorics, and both do a significant amount of graph theory. The Bender & Williamson is a bit more computer-science oriented and covers in greater depth some of the topics that they have in common; the Lovász & Vesztergombi covers some elementary number theory.