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

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Comment author: SanguineEmpiricist 19 April 2015 08:03:16PM *  1 point [-]

Well over the last year I've been studying Feller Vol 1, Probability via Expectation, Papoulis's probability book , and Abbot, Bressoud's book, and Strichartz. I also collect a lot of math books so I know random stuff but I definitely just want to get the plumbing right.

I should probably just stick with one of each, I did discrete a while ago but that was before I fixed a few things causing major productivity losses for me so i'm interested to redoing everything now my executive functions aren't depressed.

I'm thinking about getting epp as opposed to rosen

Comment author: LawrenceC 22 April 2015 12:59:56PM 2 points [-]

Wow. That's pretty impressive.

If you have a decent background in Math already, I've been told that Knuth's Concrete Mathematics might be more interesting (though it's really not appropriate as an introductory text). I've skimmed through a copy, and it seems to cover series and number theory at a much higher level, if that's what you're looking for.