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62 Post author: Louie 09 January 2013 02:33PM

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Comment author: pragmatist 09 January 2013 06:14:14PM *  6 points [-]

I haven't read multiple discrete math textbooks, so I can't make a comparative judgment, but I can confirm that Concrete Mathematics is a delightful and useful text.

Also, while Sipser's book is great for theoretical computer science, I think Moore's The Nature of Computation is much better, at least in terms of being fun to read.