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LawrenceC comments on Book Review: Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (MIRI Course List) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: LawrenceC 14 April 2015 11:17:06PM 3 points [-]

Yes, I think that's true. There are gaps, but they're mainly "trust me" results way out of the scope of the book, like the existence of NP-complete problems and so forth. He definitely doesn't have proofs that require large leaps in intuition.