Full name: Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science

Authors: Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, Oren Patashnik Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780201558029 0201558025

Concrete Mathematics is a blending of CONtinuous and disCRETE mathematics. "More concretely," the authors explain, "it is the controlled manipulation of mathematical formulas, using a collection of techniques for solving problems." Similar books: The Mathematical Universe by William Dunham An Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead How to Cut a Cake by Ian Stewart Four Colors Suffice by Robin Wilson The Art of the Infinite by Robert Kaplan Letters to a Young Mathematician by Ian Stewart Murderous Maths by Kjartan Poskitt Keys to Infinity by Clifford A. Pickover Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales by Theoni Pappas The Mathematical Tourist by Ivars Peterson by John Allen Paulos Mathematics by Timothy Gowers The Grapes of Math by Alex Bellos The Divine Proportion by H. E. Huntley QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur by Tom Lancaster Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson